I left out much in my Ltr-to-Editor, there's always room for more
(Name's) letter captured the Donald Trump pluses and minuses very well from the point of view of supporters, informing us that Trump’s appeal was his being “non bureaucratic politically incorrect ... a non-politician who was making promises,” and then downhill from there, blaming failures on everybody else: On entertainers refusing to perform for Trump, news organizations, comedians, talking heads, “even members of his own party,” and of course those ever evil Democrats.
Apparently we are supposed to accept that the purpose of news organizations is to find things to praise about Trump, not report his words and deeds, not point out his bluster, fallacies, and yes lies. True, it is far easier to find the lies since they are abundant, while things to praise are non-existent, not to mention that praising is not the job of reporting.
As we have seen, Trump blames all boogeymen for every problem his own words and deeds get him into, even blaming his own staff to save himself. It is always everybody else perpetrating hatred, vulgarity, and vilification, never what he says and does. His non-staff supporters like Mr (name) should worry about how long it will be until he blames them, too, since there is nobody left.
We have been told not to take Trump literally, so nothing he says matters. We are supposed to gather around whenever he needs to utter words at us and to make ourselves available to be summoned for more of the same the next time. Why should anybody believe that he might keep his promises? Or, a better question, why should anybody want them to be kept, since they unleashed the worst side of all of us? Whatever happened to “personal responsibility” that used to be a Republican mantra?
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