You’ve done enough damage to our country, Trump, now just go away

In your inaugural address, you described a well- functioning country as a landscape of “carnage.” It wasn’t true then, but under your leadership it certainly is now. In the last four years, we have become a country overwhelmed by a pandemic, a faltering economy, social unrest and deep cultural division.

Short of the Civil War, the early days of the Great Depression, and World War II, I can’t think of any time when the country has experienced so many crises. At least in those times, we had great leadership that inspired the country to work together to solve those problems.

The list of your lies, irrational decisions, vengeful tweets, demands for unquestioning loyalty and cruel executive decisions are endless. You’ve negated science to promote your own destructive direction in addressing a health care crisis. If those behaviors were not enough, you now attack and try to undermine the basic stronghold of our democracy: a true and fair election.

Because you have always been incapable of accepting any kind of defeat, you have launched an unfounded investigation into voter fraud to soothe your fragile ego. Instead of putting the country first, you attempt to undermine the next administration.

Evidently, you think of yourself as some type of persecuted hero. You are not now, nor have ever been a hero. The heroes of this country are the average citizens who donated money, made phone calls, wrote postcards, registered voters and waited in line for hours to vote. They made these efforts with one goal in mind: to get you out! The massive celebrations all over the country should have given you the message. IT’S TIME TO GO.

Betty Kleinberg, Deerfield