I applaud your decision to turn over your Opinion page to letters from Trump supporters.

As a staunch, lifelong Democrat, I was eager to learn how people can admire an individual who ( to me) is so abhorrently dishonest, self- centered and ignorant.

Instead of reasoned arguments, however, what I found were fact- twisting rationalizations painting Trump as a defender of religious liberty ( tell that to Muslims); a godsend for investors ( because he didn’t crash the vibrant Obama economy); a genius who “puts money in the pockets of working people” ( in an era with the widest wealth gap ever); a mastermind of science ( as COVID- 19 surges and the climate careens toward apocalypse); and, jaw- droppingly, someone in possession of a “sense of humor” ( evidenced, I suppose, by his spewing childish insults).

Rather than provide enlightenment, these letters showed the extremes to which people will go to justify biases and ideology.

Nick Duretta Pasadena