Donald Trump capitalized on the legitimate plight of working people in our country, but he manipulated and subverted their grievances to instill the worst kinds of tendencies of the human soul on his followers, some of whom were willing and others who forgave him because he was giving them a voice.
Donald Trump and his use of fear, lies, hate, intimidation and numerous other onerous methods were designed to arouse disaffected voters. He poisoned many well-meaning citizens. He demonizes and threatens immigrants and scapegoats good people simply because of their skin color; he transformed many of his followers into bigots.
He still promises to exact vengeance on his opponents, real and imagined, including women who were brave enough to point out his base tendencies and aberrations. He promises to hurt and burden the lives of our children by ignoring climate change and destroying our environmental regulations. In short, he ruined my great country, all to satisfy his narcissistic need for self-aggrandizement and power — the country be damned. And now he asks for unity to help pick up the pieces. I will never follow someone who did this to my country. I forgive most of those who were fooled by this charlatan and I will continue to support the solution to very real problems that this country faces, not those imagined by Trump. However, when Trump seeks to institute his, what can only be called pogroms, against the poor and defenseless human beings in our country or tries to implement his many other lunatic desires, I will do all I can to see him exposed and removed from office and I would ask all those who voted for him to redeem yourselves in that effort.
Conor M. Power
Montague