Demeanor in chief - never allow Donald Trump to be elected again: echo opinion from California

We the People Must Take Control! 

An echo opinion published in the Fresno Bee

“We the people” must never allow a demagogue like Donald Trump to be elected to office again.

Because of an archaic electoral system and clever gerrymandered districts in state after close-call states, plus a strident and relentless campaign of demeaning attacks and outright baloney designed to appeal to the dissatisfied masses, he “won.” I don’t think anyone was more surprised than Trump himself.

As president he has tried to rule his new political domain like a fiefdom, as he was used to doing at the top of his economic empire, employing those willing to act as lackeys and toadies, like serfs of old who benefit from the “system.” Our democracy has suffered much from this divider-in-chief, this daily liar-in-chief, this demeaner-in-chief who panders to some of the rankest elements among us, and who knows all the wily ways of demagoguery.

The way forward is to see through this miasma of bombast and false rhetoric. Let the blind see and the deaf hear! Please! 

This is our only salvation. 

We, the citizens of this great and promising American society, owe it to ourselves to turn this fraudster out and elect someone of good character and ability.

Jim Cooney, Fresno California