DEMOCRACY AND TRUMP
How is the republic holding up?
Re: “How is democracy doing?” Nov. 12 Daniel W. Drezner column.
Daniel J. Drezner asked how our country’s democracy is doing a year after Donald Trump was elected. His unsurprising conclusion: No thanks to Trump himself, it is working well. Drezner says Trump acts as a monarch more than a president. He says Trump has misused the FBI and Department of Justice. He fails to mention the broken promises of Obamacare, Benghazi distortions, Fast and Furious lies, email scandal or dark clouds shrouding the Clinton Foundation.
This disingenuous hit piece accuses President Trump of being a demagogue. By definition, all politicians are demagogues. They appeal to the popular desires and prejudices of voters to gain power. But Hillary Clinton went a step further when, during the primary, she disrespected voters from her own party. She took control of party apparatus assuring she would be the nominee. The Denver Post once again publishes an article using unreasoned, self-serving opinion to divide rather than unite. Forrest Monroe, Lone Tree
Daniel J. Drezner neglects a few very important facts. First, Donald Trump is doing his best to dismantle the Environmental Protection Agency and totally ignores the perils of climate change; second, Senate Majority Leader Mitch Mcconnell is doing his utmost to fill the many vacant federal judgeships with very conservative judges as quickly as possible; and third, immigrants are being hassled and detained in increasing numbers. I wouldn’t say that the republic is holding up fine; it just hasn’t been totally dismantled yet. Susan Permut, Monument