The victims of Trump Derangement Syndrome were out in full force yesterday on CNN. Tiffany Cross, fired from MSNBC three years ago, called White House advisor Stephen Miller a “white supremacist.”

And retired Army National Guard General Randy Manner said that President Trump’s using the National Guard to crack down on crime reminded him of Nazi Germany in the 1930s.

Deranged, yes. But the remarks are nothing new from the hate-Trump left.

Cross’s defamatory rant on Abby Phillips’ Newsnight, which bears little resemblance to “news,” began after the program showed video of Miller’s touting the success of Trump’s deployment of the guard in Washington, D.C. The streets are safe, he said.

“For the first time in their lives, they can use the parks, they can walk on the streets,” said the White House deputy chief of staff:

You have people who can walk freely at night without having to worry about being robbed or mugged. They’re wearing their watches again. They’re wearing jewelry again. They’re wearing purses again.

That didn’t set well with Cross.

“Any time that we play something from Stephen Miller, it would be journalistic integrity to point out that he is a white supremacist,” Cross raved. “That’s not my opinion. That’s actual fact.”

“For him to purport lies from the Oval Office as a white supremacist, it should be pointed out,” she continued.

Unhappily for Cross, her claim that Miller is a “white supremacist,” which she followed with “that’s actual fact,” is per se defamation. Though Miller is a public figure, and won’t likely sue, he can credibly claim that Cross commented with malice and reckless disregard of the truth. He can include CNN in a lawsuit for broadcasting the remarks.

X voices want him to sue.

“CNN’s Tiffany Cross called Stephen Miller a white supremacist last night on live television,” Turning Point USA’s Charlie Kirk wrote:

“He should sue her and anti-American CNN into oblivion,” commentator Mike Engleman wrote.

Paul Szypula speculated that Cross’s career is over, which is doubtful.

Manner, the retired National Guard general who does not wear the Combat Infantryman’s Badge, was rather more voluble. He expostulated at length on CNN’s News Central about the direct link between Trump and Der Führer.

Indeed, he wasted no time taking the viewer back to prewar Germany. The deployment, Manner averred, “is absolutely abhorrent. It reminds me so much of what happened in Germany in the 1930s.”

Manner said he “fully” believes that Trump “wants to put as a show of force to anybody who opposes him. He wants armed and uniformed military on the streets.”

If Trump simply wants law and order, Manner opined, then law enforcement, not the military, is the appropriate response to a lawless city. And of course, Trump “should restore the funds for community policing, for education, for the hiring of policemen and women in all of the jurisdictions, whether it’s the largest city or the smallest town.”

That Miller allowed Guard troops in Washington, D.C., “is very disconcerting because we are not a nation that is run by the military.”

Indeed, the “show of force both is unconscionable,” and anyway, the military is not trained for law enforcement. 

Still, Trump’s orders “are legal,” he confessed, but “absolutely, positively not” appropriate.

Amusingly, “this is all about state’s rights,” Manner claimed:

He is imposing federal troops because that’s the only way he can move them into Chicago in an involuntary status, the way he did for Los Angeles. … This is very dangerous and he’s trying to normalize the idea of us having a military on the streets of America. I’m in shock.

Manner also claimed that deploying the Guard “is all about intimidating the people and the voters in the blue areas, the blue cities, the mayors, the governors that do not support his policies.”

So Cross and Manner joined the jar of fruits and nuts who think enforcing the law makes one either a white supremacist, or, worse, a Nazi Schutzstaffel commander.

One of them is a rather more prominent individual than Cross or Manner: Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker. He has not only slyly suggested violence against Trump supporters but also, like Manner, called Trump a Nazi without actually calling him one.

“Never before in my life have I called for mass protests, for mobilization, for disruption,” the billionaire Hyatt Hotel heir fumed in April, “But I am now.”

“These Republicans cannot know a moment of peace,” he continued. Then he segued into the “soapbox” and “ballot box” to cover his tracks.

Republicans who refuse to oppose Trump are “quislings,” he said, a reference to Vidkun Quisling, Norway’s Nazi-collaborationist president.

“What I feel, anyway, is that the dangers that my family experienced in Ukraine, the dangers that we saw in, you know, Nazi Germany, especially in the earliest days of Nazi Germany, are the dangers that we need to react to now,” he told MSNBC talker Jen Psaki.

On the bright side, headshrinkers could make a fortune offering treatments for Trump Derangement Syndrome.