Letters

John Neely, this is not our first rodeo [“Improvement?” Letters, June 12]. We see things differently, and we are not alone.

I realize Democrats are very upset that the political winds have deserted them. If anything has been learned over the decades, it is that change is not the exception, it is the rule. What was once conventional wisdom is scoffed at today.

Race, gender, climate, speech and immigration are just a few topics under reconsideration. Even basic belief systems can change in a society free to question them. Today, progressive Democrats have pushed the boundaries on so much of our conventional wisdom that they have become untethered to mainstream America.

But instead of dialing back their new orthodoxy, they chose to impugn those who found it untenable. Donald Trump unexpectedly became the populist voice of this large segment of those disenchanted Americans. Democrats overplayed their mandate to change our country. They made the voice of those they alienated their target of derision, never understanding that Trump was the figurehead of a disaffected plurality of Americans.

Democrats immersed in their delusion invented a narrative that Trump had imperial aspirations, yet as they indulge their nightmare, the branches of government are intact and the Constitution is very much the law of the land.

The unfathomable hatred of one man has blinded otherwise reasonable people to the normal political response to years of misdirection.

Trump is not a political ideologue. He is driven by a business acumen that weighs cost vs. benefit. This is a slap in the face to the ideologues of the left who essentially want an America shackled by misguided obligations to past grievances, and their monumentally flawed government policies trying to spend and buy their way out of the confusion they create. Recognizing race, climate, speech, gender and immigration had all drifted away from the beliefs of many Americans, the current reformation is nothing more than a reset. It eventually will run its course.

In contrast, today’s Democrats are torn about who they are and what they should stand for. This has led to psychotic episodes characterized by violence couched in claims of civil disobedience in support of an immigration fiasco willfully tolerated by Democrats who took a blind eye to the damage it would eventually cause. Now that the immigration problem can no longer be ignored, angry mobs of professional troublemakers attack ICE agents who have the miserable job of sorting through the immigrant tragedy that Democrats have brought to every neighborhood in our country.

Yes, Democrat use of Trump to disassociate themselves from the deportation horror they are solely responsible for qualifies as derangement. Like it or not, the nation is moving ahead, with or without them.

Ed Surgan

Westhampton