Troubling and dangerous times - Georgia echo opinion

Trump’s behavior a national disgrace- echo opinion published in Savannah.com, in Georgia.

https://www.savannahnow.com/opinion/20190329/letters-to-editor-saturday-trumps-behavior-national-disgrace

Trump isn’t lying, he’s bullshitting – and it’s far more dangerous- by Lauren Griffin published in The Conversation

Reader from Savannah- I have tried to be more uplifting and positive in my recent letters, but recent headlines make it extremely difficult. The first letter I wrote on this subject was so filled with vitriolic anger that I had to start over for there is already too much of that swirling around. A dear friend helped me to recenter myself when she recently commented with words to the effect that she feels so bad for what President Donald Trump must have gone through in his young life that has caused him to be what he is today, a deeply wounded man. That is a legitimate way to look at Trump. However, this is bad enough for anyone to be so hurt but it’s beyond just bad or unfortunate when that person is president of the United States and by that office, leader of the free world.

We live in troubling and dangerous times, but these are not new challenges to the nation. Hopefully the institutions that our founding fathers created will save us from the turmoil that confronts us today, but we must do everything in our power to ensure that President Trump will not win a second term, either by the ballot in 2020 or impeachment and conviction or by the 25th amendment. My 80-year-old conservative cousin commented that he is so terribly saddened by the thought that he might not live long enough to see Trump gone from the presidency. That palatable sadness is what got me started on this letter, for I love that thoughtful and intelligent cousin like a brother. The other thing that made me so irate was Trump’s treatment of a dead man.

Everyday I think that he can’t get any worse, but then he does. He takes on a dead man, a national hero to most of us, and ridicules him before the nation, before our allies, before our enemies, and he seems incapable of stopping himself. I truly believe that the most understanding and compassionate thing I can say about Trump is that he is not just wounded; he is sick.

We can debate the legitimacy or illegitimacy of Trump’s policies till the cows come home, but as much as I disagree with most of his policies, I am most concerned about the behavior of the man. He has disgraced his office, this nation and himself.

Preston Hodges, Thunderbolt, Georgia