LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Trump support makes no sense

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To the editor:

I am using notecards from the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum to handwrite and send messages to dozens of people inside and outside the Trump administration regarding their aiding and abetting of the president’s crimes.

I wrote my name and address on the envelope, and signed each with “We the people of the United States.”

Here is a sample message:

A card with a painting by a young Holocaust survivor strikes me as perfectly fitting as a powerful reminder to you that history will not treat you kindly — nor will history treat kindly all the other craven souls who have been complicit in the devastating words and deeds and, in many cases, silence and inaction of Donald Trump — a man perhaps unique among human beings in possessing not a single admirable quality.

Can you, in good conscience, hold up as a role model for any young person a man whose narcissism, mendaciousness, greed, corruption, racism, misogyny, xenophobia, boundless vindictiveness, and total lack of empathy have caused untold harm and misery among millions of innocent people?

How in good conscience can you justify your support for a man who lacks respect for our military? Who has derided and insulted our allies, thus maiming alliances forged and strengthened since World War II?

Who has led to plummeting regard for our country among populations nearly everywhere overseas?

A man who panders to and expresses adulation for murderous despots? Who is responsible for upward of 220,000 needless deaths at the time of this writing, shattered families, economic disaster, and myriad other calamities?

Miriam Levine Helbok

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Miriam Levine Helbok,

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