Trump-atic hysteria

Well, The Jerusalem Post has done it again.

Referring to the Comment & Features section from December 20, I see that it is chockablock filled with writers still deep in hysteria over the American presidential election.

Starting with Rabbi Michael Cohen from Bennington College in Bennington, Vermont, he notes that “more than anything this election was about the failure to understand freedom.”

And of course he accuses President-elect Donald Trump in so many words as running a campaign in which all forms of expression were considered acceptable. Bennington is a left-wing campus paradise.

Then we have Mose Apelblat, a former official from the European Commission, damning the US electoral system and its electoral college and pointing out that if the popular vote had been the ultimate decider, Democrat Hilary Clinton would have won. Love that European arrogance!

Now flip over to two of our elitist faculty contributors to the New

York Times, that so-called “newspaper of record,” which doesn’t like Israel and the Jewish people very much.

We have Colby College Prof. Neil Gross telling us that the continuing hysteria is a type of collective trauma over perceived repeats of “historical traumas linked with anti-democratic politics such as the emergence of fascism in interwar Europe and the rise of McCarthy in the 1950s.”

And finally, professors Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt of Harvard University bemoaning the president-elect with “authoritarian tendencies... who could pose a serious threat to American democracy. We must be vigilant!”

Aside from the fact that all of these writers appear to be Jewish, it is the same drum-beating that has been going on since the election. Currying the continuing hysteria with hand wringing, they encourage all the sore losers and keep agitating their supporters and like-thinkers into yet more hysteria and hand wringing, until this has become a tempest of serious dimensions.

Trump hasn’t taken office yet but this gang of criers and all their hordes of fellow criers are the ones it seems to me who are threatening American democracy.

True, Trump’s outrageous statements during the campaign were disgusting. But the Democrats were hardly Pollyannas. That’s what elections are like. But get real, grow up and give the man a chance before you try to lynch him.

And please, give us more balance on these oped pages. JANICE GAINES Netanya