Work with Trump or fight?

Re Trump is right. He doesn’t always get a square deal, Walkom, Aug. 7 Thanks to Thomas Walkom for noting the media’s vicious treatment of U.S. President Donald Trump. Americans chose Trump because he broke the mould of their politicians. They supported his Russia-friendly agenda, his intent to end foreign military involvement and stop trade deals that outsource jobs.

The ugly political and media reactions portend an establishment coup to return control to those driven by U.S. military and economic agendas. We should not welcome it. Karin Brothers, Toronto

Thomas Walkom posits the dilemma of our time.

We can cherry-pick possibly redeeming abuses and/or achievements of Trump and friends, and risk the accusatory stings from the liberal left, where we are seen to be inadvertently batching the president’s emerging track record with Mussolini or Hitler. Not nice comparisons, but, we would be seen to be normalizing Trump. Such a tack might be the olive branch that gets people otherwise opposed to talk about constructive possibilities.

Or we could instead double-down our condemnations of the White House and its rampant right-wingers, as now evidenced by six-plus months as being even more deplorable than Hillary Clinton could have intended. And we could ramp up strategy and effort to purge this infestation. There is a comfort in this doubledown, but good endings are hard to see. P.D. Brown, Toronto