They Want You to feel Demoralized

Autocratic Despair Defined

Autocratic Despair is the feeling of hopelessness & powerlessness that arises when living under or dealing with an autocratic regime or leadership. In a nascent Authoritarian state, it assaults the senses in any way it can at an accelerated pace. It is by design. The idea is to implant the idea that there is one individual or small group that holds absolute power. It is meant to exhaust the people it oppresses, to create a sense of hopelessness that causes them to believe there isn't anything that can be done and withdraw into a pervasive sense of despair, frustration, and anxiety.

Moreover, it is a less judgemental term to express the idea that you are bothered by the chokehold that Donald Trump has on our country. The current one that exists - Trump Derangement Syndrome or TDS - is a thought-terminating cliche meant to make it easy to dismiss anyone who expresses completely reasonable misgivings about Trump's fitness for leadership as President of the United States.