mad as a March hare

But this was among the qualities of his “Moby-Dick” that reviewers found bonkers: “The style is maniacal—mad as a March hare.”

You s’posed to be smart, Charlie; that brain of yourn only got so much in it; you keep going to it as though it’s a well and dipping water out, mark my words, one day it gonna run dry and leave you mad as a March hare.

Putting politics aside, terms such as “madman,” “barking mad,” “mad as a March hare,” “off his rocker,” “ ’round the bend” and “a few fries short of a Happy Meal” demean, marginalize and ridicule individuals who often have serious brain disorders. 

I’ve called him crazy, daft, a madman, barking mad and mad as a March hare, and I’ve “diagnosed” him — I’m not a mental-health professional and have never examined the president — with narcissistic personality disorder and more.

The world is the closest it has been to nuclear war in 55 years, and I wanted to caution you that the man with whom you are now eyeball to eyeball could be as mad as a March hare.