Donald Trump and his dangerous revenge agenda
Echo opinion letter pubished in the Pierce County Journal a Wisconsin newspaper:
To the editor, It is already clear, based on his statements and actions, that Donald Trump’s only concerns as President will be revenge on his political enemies and enrichment for himself and the richest Americans. The greed of those who possess most of the wealth and now want it all is beyond belief.
Trump is hand-picking his administration to serve those ends. Where we have traditionally relied on the conscientiousness of civil servants, we will now have only servants of Trump.
How much of our government Trump will be able, with the help of his hard-right friends, to dismantle is anybody’s guess. With figures like Tulsi Gabbard, a vocal Putin supporter, heading National Intelligence and Matt Gaetz, under investigation for child sex trafficking and drug use, as Attorney General, we are justified in feeling deeply uneasy about our continued safety internationally and domestically. Even Trump’s hawkish former National Security adviser John Bolton has called Gabbard’s nomination a threat to security and the sleazy Gaetz’s nomination “the worst” in American history.
I sympathize with fellow voters who saw economic issues as of paramount importance in the election. Nevertheless, I do not think relief for them is in store when Trump’s tariffs raise prices on domestic goods.
There is no excusing the normalization of Trump by the media that have portrayed him as even marginally acceptable as candidate. After the 2016 election there may have been some justification in giving Trump the benefit of the doubt to see what he would actually do once in office. Today there can be no doubt and no honeymoon. We know what he is and what he would like to do.
For the sake of our own moral and ethical integrity we can never accept as legitimate a liar, a felon convicted on 34 counts, and sexual predator occupying our highest office, the most powerful and formerly respected in the world. What in heaven’s name are parents to tell their children looking toward the President for an example of honorable adult leadership?
By surrounding himself with corrupt and incompetent loyalists, Trump has made crystal clear that his allegiance is not to the people, half of whom he has branded as an “enemy within,” but to his own lust for power and retribution. His reckless appointments appear to signal an intent to push American government to the breaking point. New York Times columnist Jamelle Bouie writes, “Neither chaos nor dysfunction nor incompetence is an obstacle to Trump’s lawless intentions. If anything, they’re assets.”
Our democratic system of government, imperfect as it may be, is the fragile product of nearly 250 years’ thought, work, and sacrifice of some of our most patriotic Americans. Do we really want to squander that inheritance on an unhinged man’s destructive rages❗ and vendettas?
From Thomas R. Smith in River Falls, Wisconsin
Trump is hand-picking his administration to serve those ends. Where we have traditionally relied on the conscientiousness of civil servants, we will now have only servants of Trump.
How much of our government Trump will be able, with the help of his hard-right friends, to dismantle is anybody’s guess. With figures like Tulsi Gabbard, a vocal Putin supporter, heading National Intelligence and Matt Gaetz, under investigation for child sex trafficking and drug use, as Attorney General, we are justified in feeling deeply uneasy about our continued safety internationally and domestically. Even Trump’s hawkish former National Security adviser John Bolton has called Gabbard’s nomination a threat to security and the sleazy Gaetz’s nomination “the worst” in American history.
I sympathize with fellow voters who saw economic issues as of paramount importance in the election. Nevertheless, I do not think relief for them is in store when Trump’s tariffs raise prices on domestic goods.
There is no excusing the normalization of Trump by the media that have portrayed him as even marginally acceptable as candidate. After the 2016 election there may have been some justification in giving Trump the benefit of the doubt to see what he would actually do once in office. Today there can be no doubt and no honeymoon. We know what he is and what he would like to do.
For the sake of our own moral and ethical integrity we can never accept as legitimate a liar, a felon convicted on 34 counts, and sexual predator occupying our highest office, the most powerful and formerly respected in the world. What in heaven’s name are parents to tell their children looking toward the President for an example of honorable adult leadership?
By surrounding himself with corrupt and incompetent loyalists, Trump has made crystal clear that his allegiance is not to the people, half of whom he has branded as an “enemy within,” but to his own lust for power and retribution. His reckless appointments appear to signal an intent to push American government to the breaking point. New York Times columnist Jamelle Bouie writes, “Neither chaos nor dysfunction nor incompetence is an obstacle to Trump’s lawless intentions. If anything, they’re assets.”
Our democratic system of government, imperfect as it may be, is the fragile product of nearly 250 years’ thought, work, and sacrifice of some of our most patriotic Americans. Do we really want to squander that inheritance on an unhinged man’s destructive rages❗ and vendettas?
From Thomas R. Smith in River Falls, Wisconsin
Labels: Jamelle Bouie, Pierce County Journal, River Falls, Thomas R. Smith, Wisconsin
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