Editor,
Enough! I am fed up with the bigoted bombastic bluster coming from bigmouth Donald Trump, and his mini-me Ted Cruz, in the media. If any one of Trump’s smug sophomoric statements was made publicly only a few years ago, there would have been immediate outcry. He would have been banished from mainstream media as a pariah. It’s doubtful his spew would have been tolerated by any network with even a modicum of journalistic principles, Fox “News” excepted, of course.
Trump thrives on demagoguery. He’s a tyrant whose money insulated him from any consequences of being a bully that bulldozes anyone who disagrees with him. This may work sometimes in the business world. In politics, though, it leads to absolute, catastrophic disaster.
It’s called dictatorship, and if this materializes, all bets are off. Civil rights cease. The Constitution becomes irrelevant. Law enforcement replaces the judicial system. Fear permeates everywhere.
It’s unbelievable that Trump can be taken even halfway seriously by some. The fact is, those “some” actually are supporting him and think they are “patriots.” These people have something in common with the Brown Shirts, the mob mentality thugs that boosted Hitler into power.
Think not? Think again. Try talking to someone who was actually there. History doesn’t exactly repeat itself, but there are similarities that can have horrific results if we don’t pay attention.
The Republican Party was hijacked by Tea Party crackpots. They thrive on fearmongering and intolerance of anyone who is different enough from them and their ideal of who should live in this country.
That ideal means white, Christian — even though the original meaning has typically been lost on them — and politically ultra-conservative, which blends seamlessly into fascism.
Trump is the antithesis of what an American leader should be. He would bar anyone from entering this country based on their religion. He likes internment camps.
Unfortunately, he is no joke at least to a lot of misguided people. He is dangerous. God help us all if he is not jeered off the political stage.
Robert Jobe
Freeland
