Thanks to Mike C.
An essay about Trump by Bouie in the NYT, prompted the following letter from a reader:
“While it’s important to ensure that the Mar-a-Lago Messiah never gets anywhere near the White House, it’s also important for frustrated Americans to remember that the USA is not where it is today as a nation because of Donald Trump.
We are where we are today because for over four decades, a giant Republican wrecking ball has been constantly swinging over the heads, homes, healthcare, hopes and voting booths of 99% of Americans. Four plus decades of anti-tax, anti-union, anti-healthcare, anti-worker, anti-government, anti-women, anti-regulation, anti-democracy extremism AND pro-billionaire, pro-1% moneyed speech, pro-dollarocracy obstruction AND minority rule tactics successfully executed by the Grand Oligarch Party has very effectively drowned democracy in the GOP bathtub, allowing the will of the people to be consistently ignored and overruled by GOP kabuki political theater and culture war distraction.
And while this Republican 0.1% wrecking ball has also corrupted some Democrats as well, the fact of the matter is that the Democratic Party is the only ticket out of our current Gilded Age.
But given the reality that the USA is NOT a democracy, the Democratic ticket requires an electoral supermajority to achieve forward progress, a reality that many Americans are tragically oblivious to.
The reality is that if Americans pull the R voting lever, their only reward will be yet another scrumptious tax cut for billionaires. D to go forward; R for really, really rich people.”
My son, a Seattle attorney and I have had conversations about who possibly votes for Donald. We both view him as an unscrupulous, immoral narcissist who does not really have a grasp of our nation’s issues. I just finished reading Tim Alberta’s book, :The Kingdom, the Power and the Glory”. Tim Alberta is the son of a Christian minister and he knows a great deal about Christianity. He traveled across the US interviewing the ministers and leaders of the Christian Right. They have politicized Christianity and have supported Donald as a Savior, forgiven for his sins, and sent by God to lead a Christian revolution in this country which would create a Religious State. The book is so revealing to me. i am recommending it to all the people I know.