Donald Trump is mentally decompensating in real time but cult supporters are blind to his distored mind-games

TO THE EDITOR: Echo opinion letter Midland Daily News a daily newspaper which serves Midland County, Michigan.

Former guy Donald J. Trump is not running for president. Rather, he is running for “president for life,” an office that does not exist in our democracy. He did not accept defeat in 2020, and will not accept defeat in 2024, or any subsequent year.

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In his mentally distorted mind-game, he views himself as the unaccountable ruler of this nation. It is apparent from his rhetoric and actions that he believes he has the right to do whatever he chooses, and to make his whims the law, his perceived enemies the nation’s enemies, and our current "rule of law" and systems of checks and balances to be subverted and violated with impunity.

He treats his twisted fantasies as the truth and expects everyone to go along with him no matter how much hurt he does to other persons, our nation or our planet home. He expects us to allow him dictatorial powers to punish anyone who opposes him and tries to deny him his preposterous phantasms of power. He is not a healthy, democratic, Constitution-abiding candidate, and we will demonstrate to the world that we are not healthy if we allow him to run for any office, much less the highest office of our beloved America.

Democracy is about being informed voters who are not taken in by sinister liars who misinform us to the ruin of our own lives. Democracy requires us to understand what democracy is and how its complex system of checks and balances works for the benefit of us all, and to not be taken in by those who would throw out all that we have accomplished in the nearly 250 years since our founding.

Donald Trump is not running for president to enable us to build on what has been accomplished. His dark fantasy 💀would snuff out our shining light of democracy and cast us into a dark age of dictatorial dementia.

Harold Slater in Midland Michigan