Liberals aren’t overreacting

Re “Blaming the president’s critics,” Mailbag, June 17

A few supporters of President Trump blame “liberal news organizations” for “feeding the deranged mind-set of radicals,” to quote directly from one letter.

What these people miss is the simple point that we liberals are not responding to media prompts such as those from Breitbart or Fox News. We are responding to the simple reality of what Trump actually does or wants to do: gutting environmental protection, repealing financial regulations and consumer protection, pushing for the privatization of public education, eroding healthcare, implementing massive tax cuts for the rich and engaging in friendly relations with autocrats.

No spin or phony conspiracies are in play here. Jan Rainbird

Irvine