Donald Trump and his hypocriticl cult are now stuck with his priority revenge policies.

 GOP’s march to tyranny finds its ultimate success with Trump

Echo opinion letter published in the Boston Globe:

The Purge begins.

The Republican Party‘s relentless march toward repressive, divisive, bigoted policies began with the Tea Party movement and found its ultimate success with the rise of an unhinged, immoral cult leader.

Donald Trump and his lily-livered, hypocritical apologists have transformed the party creed from one that celebrated private freedom, social responsibility, and fiscal temperance into one that defines personal freedom based on their narrow white Christian lens, demeans the value of helping those less fortunate, and dismantles policies that grow economic opportunities in order to satisfy the avarice of wealthy people and institutions seeking to minimize taxes and limitations on their pursuits.

As with previous Republican administrations, Trump’s policies are bound to send our economy into a tailspin and hurt the aggrieved working class who helped put him in office.

Trump’s second term will demonstrate the existential danger of the Republican Party he leads. Words, facts, and appeals to long-held values and moral codes have had little or no impact on this drift into tyranny. The pain of promised punishment of Trump’s detractors, rising inequality, international disgrace, and deteriorating communities, environment, and living circumstances that follow may be the only cure for the mindless angry fervor that has gripped half of the American voting public.

From Louise A. Venden in Cambridge, Massachusettes

God did not save Donald Trump's life and God did not take away the life of an innocent rally victim

As a woman of Roman Catholic faith, I am compleley confident saying that God was not in attendance at the outdoor rally in Pennsylvania, where Donald Trump was injured on July 13, 2024, while an innocent bystander was murdered.  

Scripture 1 Thessalonians 5:22: "reject every kind of evil"

God was definitely not present at the Pennsylvania rally.  

However, what was evident to many alert rally attendees was their warning about a suspicious person who was reported to police. It turned out the suspicious person was a 20 year old man with a gun who shot at Trump, killed an innocent bystander, badly injured two other people while traumatizing the entire audience, somehow escaped the police and, yes,  stunned the Secret Service personnel (who obviously seemed to act like deer caught in the headlights before they took decisive action to protect the shooter's victim). 

Nevertheless, Republicans who spoke at the Republican Trump Rapture Convention in Milwaukee, seem to have developed some kind of mystical understanding about what God wanted to have happen during the shooter's evil intentions, when he aimed his A15 style rifle at his target. Senator Ted Cruz and Senator Tim Scott spoke like they had first hand knowledge about what God intended to happen at the Pennsylvania rally. Well, just so they both know.....with 100 percent certainty, I know God was not there and had zero to do with the horrible shooting. God is not the motivator of evil. Sadly, the innocent man who was murdered while attending the event with Donald Trump was the victim who experienced the evil intention of the shooter- a young man who had a gun. 

Echo opinion letter published in the Boston Globe:  

Dear Editor: Thanks to the Globe for the fascinating article by Emma Platoff and Jim Puzzanghera about the religious zeal and insane rapture atmosphere (ie, my editorial comment), at the Republican Convention (“For the faithful, it’s greatest story ever,” Page A1, July 17). 

Aenators Ted Cruz (R-Texas) and Tim Scott (R-Florida) in speeches ascribe Donald Trump’s escape from death by an AR-15-style rifle to the deity, who supposedly intervened to save Trump’s life.

Do Cruz and Scott and their audience believe that the Almighty also intervened to bring about the death of the rallygoer on the stage near Trump, who died protecting his family from the kind of weapon the Democratic Party wants outlawed for civilian use?

Have the Trump faithful noticed that the suspected shooter had not reached the age of 21? Should we be blaming God for circumstances of our own making? 

From Megan Brook in Cambridge, Massachusetts

P.S.  God did not save Donald Trump. An evil intentioned shooter with a gun was at the Pennsylvania rally and God was notwhere to be found.