tetched

Trump and his supporters would likely greet a formal diagnosis in the same way they greet every news item that makes it clear that the man is tetched: Deny, deflect, defend.

“But nary a hair on that chile’s head got tetched. The good Lord spared her. And when she was seventeen, God called her to China as a missionary. Pore thang got over thar and died of the smallpox two months later.”

Long ’nough for Ma and Pap to wonder if I’d banged my head on something and got tetched.

As Heather Digby Parton chronicled for Salon last week, the idea that Blasey Ford is a bit tetched and must be confused about which guy allegedly groped her at a party has been gaining steam in right-wing circles, and was even floated in a recent column by the deplorable Kathleen Parker of the Washington Post.

"You are a journalist, you should have the skills to analyse it yourself!" the Special One tetched.