I've gotten more texts and messages from conservative-leaning friends the past week, marveling at the meltdowns all of their liberal acquaintances are having this week. And I don't mean long social media rants or just anger at the results; that's nothing special. But I mean people having totally disconnected with reality reactions to a Presidential election - it's not healthy, and a sanity check is needed.

The peak of this disorder comes from Minnesota, where tragically, a father of two murdered both sons, his wife, and an ex-partner before turning the gun on himself. Leading up to the shootings, he was sharing nonstop left-wing, pro-Democratic Party memes and attacking Trump and Republicans.

At one point in July, he bizarrely declared, "My mental health and the world can no longer peacefully coexist, and a lot of the reason is religion," Anthony Nephew wrote in July. I am terrified of religious zealots inflicting their misguided beliefs on me and my family. I have intrusive thoughts of being burned at the stake as a witch, or crucified on a burning cross. Having people actually believe that I or my child are Satan or, the anti-Christ or whatever their favorite color of boogie man they are afraid are this week."

And I wish I could say some of this was far off from what I've seen this week. My lefty friends have consoled each other, posted information for the suicide prevention hotline, and posted all manner of things like upside-down flags and more. Liberals have stopped friends and strangers on the street to see if they're "alright" and handling "events" well.

I'm not the only one seeing this; my friends are seeing the same on social media and in real life. Bethany Mandel writes in the New York Post that she's seen patently insane things in her mom-related Facebook groups.

One mother writes, "My 10-year-old broke down crying this morning saying 'mommy now we're going to die I'm worried.' [I told her] to unite with all the kids that wanted Harris to win." Another writes, "My six-year-old son kept hugging me this morning and saying 'don't worry mama, I won't let him hurt you.'"

We're witnessing one of the largest mental health cracks in history. It's a mass hysteria, admittedly somewhat performative, where people are blasting their hysteria into the internet and demanding total validation. Those with children are imprinting that hysteria onto them with no guardrails or coping mechanisms. Liberals are projecting deep fears on everyone that bear no resemblance to reality.

In this century, it's been exceedingly rare for one party to win elections more than two cycles in a row. Democrats did it in 2018 and 2020 and 2006 and 2008. Republicans won in 2000, 2002, and 2004. But in every cycle, it's back and forth all the time. Barack Obama was swept into power in 2008, but two years later, Republicans won one of the largest House majorities they'd ever have. Obama won the presidency in 2012, but Republicans hammered him in the House and Senate in 2014.

Trump won in 2016, and Democrats followed up with midterm wins in 2018 and a very close Presidential election in 2020. Republicans won the House in 2022, with mixed results elsewhere. Donald Trump just won the presidency again.

At the Presidential level, we've had nonstop back-and-forth. Since George H. W. Bush succeeded Reagan in 1988, it's been a back-and-forth affair: Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, Barack Obama, Trump, Biden, and now Trump again.

The states we consider battlegrounds are shifting, and people are moving. The party coalitions are changing. The one single constant in American politics is change at all levels. We sweep one party in and then immediately sweep them back out. That's partially why term limits legislation isn't really needed; we already have a consistent amount of turnover.

But this reality isn't anywhere in the broad-based fear and despair being projected by liberals. And to liberals reading this, not a single independent, moderate, or conservative even remotely think it's a healthy emotional reaction or rational. It's like having a total breakdown when your team loses in sports. I'm a long-suffering fan of the Tennessee Volunteers; I've seen decades of embarrassing losses. The Atlanta Braves had, until a few years ago, made choking in the playoffs an art form.

Your political party is going to lose races in America. It's especially going to lose races when your sitting president is broadly unpopular, inflation is making voters angry, and your hand-picked and installed Presidential nominee can't offer one answer for what she'd change from the unpopular president's term in office.

Voters demanded change. They weren't offered it; they were offered Donald Trump or more of the same. They chose Trump. It's not even that peculiar when examining politics on a global level. No matter what party held power in the Western world, if that party was in charge when inflation spiked, the odds of them getting wiped out of power were extremely high in the last few years.

Democrats will win elections again, which includes the White House. 2024 wasn't the last election in U.S. history, no matter how many times you post ridiculous memes to the contrary. Wake up and touch grass. The Democratic Party's obsession with politics has produced deeply unwell partisans, and it's getting worse.

Donald Trump has had two assassination attempts foiled against him. The Congressional baseball field shooting wasn't that long ago. Cool the rhetoric, touch grass, and return to reality. The videoed panic attacks, screaming, and performative grief do nothing except tell the world you've lost the plot.