Hill fans go the extra vile

My column on how lucky America was to avoid a Hillary Clinton presidency brought the usual leftist insults about my supposed gay relationship with President Trump and wishes that I meet a painful end.

As reader W. Snyder put it, “Please kill yourself so no one will have to read your racist remarks again. Die soon.”

Yet I was struck by how many critical letters were simply personal attacks on Trump. Often, it was pure, blind hate that echoed the campaign of 2016, and we know how that turned out.

“This moron has not only ruined our democracy and disgraced our nation, he is a compulsive liar and a criminal,” wrote Kevin Kelley.

A reader named Charlene said, “This president is a nightmare. The whole nation is falling apart.”

Rebecca Brown says, “He is a liar that is trying to change our democracy into an authoritative state.”

And Scott Aichinger says Trump has a “dehumanizing and anti-American presidency.”

Trump supporters were well represented, too, and reader Mark Mickley best captured their values.

He writes, “A ton of us out here in middle America think Trump’s doing a damn good job and we could care less who he’s slept with or that he’s a bully with bad table manners.

“We just want results. He gets results.”