TRUE PATRIOTS ARE NOT CONSTRAINED BY ACADEMIC STANDARDS, PROFESSIONAL ETHICS OR POLITICS
Academicians, mental health professionals and partisan politicians all have their reasons for dismissing publications about Trump’s mental health. True patriots, on the other hand have very different standards by which they judge the admittedly sensitive nature of those publications. True patriots make Trump’s mental health and the mental health of his allies an issue that invokes standards of a much higher moral order than those used by academicians, mental health professionals and partisan politicians: patriotism.  True patriots’ perspective justifies discussing psychological concerns publicly and proactively, even if they are controversial, because the stakes involve the stability of the country, global peace and the health and well-being of all Americans. 

True patriots’ standards typically include:

• They emphasize moral and civic responsibility to protect the nation and its people from harm.
• They stress the urgent need to assess and address the fitness of a president or public leader for office to safeguard democracy, public safety, and national security.
• They prioritize transparency and truth-telling when a leader’s behavior imposes real harm to Americans
• The consider silence about these issues as complicity in a crime.
• They are willing to make personal sacrifices in order to make all Americans aware of President Trump’s mental health and its harmful impact on Americans.
• They advocate for early intervention in leadership incapacitation, endorsing tools like impeachment, the 25th Amendment or mental fitness evaluations to prevent Trump from doing more harm to American people and institutions.
• They frame mental health discussions in the context of public interest, stressing that the wellbeing of all Americans outweighs any need to protect the privacy of Trump and his followers.
• They consider the political and ethical imperative to warn citizens about potential threats from erratic, impulsive, or impaired leadership as a patriotic duty that overrides partisanship and professional ethics.
• They Insist on accountability and good character in America’s leaders.
• They see mental health critiques of Trump and his followers as part of broad efforts to uphold democratic norms and protect institutions from authoritarianism.

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These standards reflect a willingness to confront uncomfortable truths for the greater good and a focus on collective safety and democratic health rather than maintaining political decorum or allegiance. They are grounded in the belief that patriotism includes vigilance against leadership that could harm the nation, even if it means challenging norms about discussing mental health in public discourse.

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