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To the editor:
Is it surprising, even fascinating in a negative way, that we have a president whom almost no honorable person in America or in the rest of the world likes or respects. Trump's cult members respect him as their cult guru, but that’s not respect.
I guess that it’s almost impossible to like or respect a malignant narcissist who cares only about himself, and is happy to hurt and even kill good people and their children (through his military and ICE policies).
The comedians have fun with him because he is a physical and mental embarrassment who hates more than anyone and never tells the truth when a lie will do as well. Like Rosie said, Natalie, time to tuck him into bed.
The only thing holding him back from being more like Hitler, Mussolini or Caligula is what he hasn’t destroyed of our Constitutional and democratic system and values.
People have no trouble “playing” Trump. Natalie Harp plays him like a fiddle. Milania Trump stays as far away from him as she can.
Does Trump care that Pete Hegseth’s wife, Jennifer, acts like she is the assistant Secretary of Defense? Benjamin Netanyahu puts a hook on Trump’s gold nose ring and leads him into war and then puts roadblocks in any peace talks.
Iran knows they have the upper hand on Trump since their power over the Strait of Hormuz is better than a nuclear bomb.
The secrets of the green reflecting pool may never be uncovered because of Jeanine Pirro’s reluctance to lie under oath in court for King Donald. What would her disbarment mean to Trump? Nothing.
Nor does he care that Rudy Giuliani, Kenneth Chesebro, John Eastman, Michael Cohen, Jenna Ellis (license suspended), can no longer practice law, and many others are on very thin ice with their licenses to practice law at risk — and all for their lies and unprofessional conduct in working or supporting Donald Trump.
The race by Trump to build his ballroom is going at a fever pitch to get this monstrosity done before Chief Justice John Roberts delays a decision regarding the stop work order from a lower court. Now Trump wants to strip the proposed name of an aircraft carrier, Dorrie Miller, a Black cook who became an incredible hero at Pearl Harbor and later died in the war, and name it after himself, Donald Trump — a shameless draft dodger who considers dead war heroes a suckers and losers.
Can anything good be said of Donald Trump, anything at all? Not if one wants to tell the truth about this degenerate villain.
Michael Gorman
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reenjoe
Americans are extremely lucky that this miscreant is 80 years old and not in his 40's like Hitler, Mussolini and Franco were when they rose to power. If Trump were a younger man, nothing, including our laws and values would stop him from becoming a lifelong dictator.
Wednesday, August 26 Report this
Valete
Ballots, Not Bullying
To write of public affairs with nothing but rage is to miss the shape of the country entirely. When the author dismisses half of his fellow citizens as members of a dark and mindless cult, he shuts the door on understanding. A nation is not a stadium filled with villains and saints; it is a collection of neighbors, many of whom look at the same White House and see a necessary defender of the law, the border, and the quiet orderly life they wish to lead.
The essayist’s fears of tyrants and collapsing structures belong more to the theater than to the American landscape. Our institutions possess a stubborn, weathered permanence that does not dissolve under the heat of a single presidency. To look at a country where courts still sit, laws are debated, and peace treaties are signed, and to see only Caligula, is to mistake the noisy weather of politics for the climate itself. Democracy, at its heart, is a quiet agreement to let one's neighbor speak his mind at the ballot box, a sanctuary where the individual right to vote must remain entirely free from the shadows of verbal abuse or physical fear.
Thursday, August 27 Report this
reenjoe
Mr. Gorman, despite what some may think, Julius Caesar overthrew 500 years of democratic rule, simply by driving his army from Gaul to Rome across the Rubicon. Adolf Hitler dismantled the German courts, laws and Reichstag a mere 53 days after being appointed Chancellor (an unelected position) while many Germans saw him as "a necessary defender of the law, the border, and the quiet orderly life they wish to lead".
"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it." – George Santayana
Friday, August 28 Report this
Valete
“ Cannis’s post contains several historical errors regarding Julius Caesar and Adolf Hitler.
First, Julius Caesar did not instantly overthrow 500 years of democratic rule simply by crossing the Rubicon. The Roman Republic was an oligarchy, not a modern democracy. Its institutions had been decaying due to decades of civil wars, political violence, and structural erosion long before 49 B.C. The crossing merely ignited a five-year civil war; the formal collapse of the Republic occurred much later under his successor, Augustus.
Second, Adolf Hitler did not completely dismantle the German courts, laws, and the Reichstag within 53 days. While the Enabling Act of March 1933 allowed him to bypass parliament, the Reichstag and the judiciary formally coexisted alongside his dictatorship for years. Finally, the text falsely implies Germans uniformly welcomed him for order, ignoring the widespread state terror, violent suppression of opposition parties, and the immediate mass arrests of political opponents that forced compliance.
Nick Carraway tells Gatsby, “You can’t repeat the past.” Gatsby famously fires back, “Can’t repeat the past? Why, of course you can!”
“ P.S.: It is a rare and comforting thing, Cannisi, to find a man who can err with such rhythmic, predictable devotion. Do keep going; your downward trajectory has all the grace of a dislodged boulder, and provides an equally delightful entertainment for those of us watching from the ridge."
Friday, August 28 Report this
reenjoe
Sica LOVES to re-frame other's arguments in a feeble attempt to control the narrative. I posted "many Germans" viewed Hitler favorably not that "Germans uniformly welcomed him".
As the saying goes, I know best what I said. Sica needs to stop putting his words in other people's mouths.
Friday, August 28 Report this
Valete
Cannisi, your letters and posts are skewed by falsehoods and political bias.
Cannisi, Look before you leap.
Cannisi, your opinions are as stale as stale bread.
Sunday, August 30 Report this
Valete
Gorman is at it again. His obsession with Trump grows daily. He offers no policy critiques. He only calls the man a narcissist. This fixated hostility is not standard political dissent. The vitriol reveals a deep psychological fixation. It is not objective commentary.
The fixation stems from partisan bias. The president champions free-market principles. The Democratic platform aligns with socialist ideals. Gorman operates under this ideological banner. He ignores the glaring shortcomings of the Democratic party’s social policies. His fierce allegiance skews his judgment. It compromises his analytical neutrality.
This creates a perplexing predicament. The intense hostility borders on a consuming delusion. It destroys rational thought. Ultimately, if Gorman intends to write credible essays, he must come to grips with this unhealthy fixation. An essayist consumed by a bitter grudge leaves no room for objective truth.
Monday, August 31 Report this
Valete
To All Trump’s Naysayers. This micro-essay is for you.
The Defiant Leader
Donald Trump changed politics. He used a hard will and populist talk to break the old ways. This shook Washington, but his people loved it. He projected raw strength and never backed down from the press or politicians.
His plan was America First. He tore up trade deals, locked the border, and challenged NATO. He wanted speed. He skipped reporters and used the internet to speak straight to voters.
Critics hated his tactics. His followers saw the strength needed to protect them. He fought for the forgotten working class. He was tough, he lasted, and politics will never be the same.
Monday, August 31 Report this