Oklahoma echo - Wake up call to Trump "alternate reality" cult

An excellent letter to the editor, published in the Tulsa World newspaper, by Charlie Cantrell, Tulsa OK

Trump supporters remain unencumbered by objective reality, living within the confines of an imagined wall of fear and hatred, directed mostly at immigrants.

It’s a bubble encasing them in a separate reality that believes people of different races, religions, ideologies or nationalities should be feared and hated.

Radio talk show hosts and Faux News (I love this nuanced label!) continually stoke this under-siege mentality of mostly white, conservative, Republican Christians.

When they gather to froth and chant silliness at raucous MAGA (reminiscent of Nazi beer halls) rallies, it’s (ahhh, sort of) pretty harmless.

But when Congressional Republicans implement policies based on this separate reality to please his (self anointed) majesty, they relinquish their integrity and relevance, and we discover how dangerous policies based on a false premise can be.

Examples: Trump supporters want to spend billions on a “big, beautiful (horrible!),” ineffective, 2,000-mile wall to keep out a nonexistent invasion of bad hombres. They concoct a fictitious border crisis to take babies from mothers seeking asylum in the land of the free and the brave.

They want the Department of Justice to stop investigating the most corrupt administration in our country’s history because the alleged perpetrators claim it’s a witch hunt.

They don’t believe in climate change because Sen. Jim Inhofe showed them a snowball. They believe the answer to gun violence is more guns.

All these asinine solutions stem from alternate reality, and they are dangerous. They’ve not nor will they ever make America great again. Alternative reality, red hats and silly chants don’t solve real world problems.