Politics as business
Re: What Trump Gets Right, Kelly McParland; America’s Liberal Elites: Are You Happy Now?, Terry Glavin, both, July 28. Terry Glavin describes Donald Trump as a caudillo whose success represents the revenge of “the worst and the most cunning of the racists and xenophobes,” which is a disgusting slur against Trump supporters. Meanwhile, he describes Hillary Clinton as merely “the party’s least popular Democratic presidential contender since Jimmy Carter.”
Considering the staggering revenue that has flowed to the Clintons in speaking fees and donations to the Clinton Foundation — including questionable and undisclosed amounts received from parties with business pending before the State Department while Mrs. Clinton was secretary, such as Uranium One — and the permanent destruction of thousands of emails on her personal email server, despite the receipt of a subpoena that might have shed light on these and other issues, Mrs. Clinton may be the party’s most corrupt presidential contender ever. Glavin’s column comes across as shilling for Mrs. Clinton but, as he so contemptuously puts it, I guess that is just my “narrative.” Neil Peden, Montreal. Kelly McParland gets most of it right, but follows the same fallacy as other Trumpdeniers: no one outlines how they are going to accomplish what they say before being elected. Donald Trump is the only one qualified to be president just because he is a successful businessman who knows that the bottom line has to be positive. He knows how to complete New York state projects that were nowhere near completion, and way over budget by putting his money where his mouth is and finishing the project in less time than he said and under-budget.
Trump often does not speak nice. But he has a proven record of accomplishing things, one that puts politicians to shame. We have been lulled into fantasy- dreamland by politicians for years who promise and do not deliver. Ontario’s Liberals might be one example. Thank God Trump is not a failed politician with nice words, but an accomplished businessman whose record is real, not imagined. Charles G. Pedley, Fonthill, Ont. President Donald Trump will get things done using the considerable apparatus and influence of the American government. That elephantine point seems to elude Kelly McParland. Barry Stagg, Toronto