Occasionally an anti-Trump letter to the Trib is insightful and interesting. Usually, however, they read like wild, dissociative ramblings. A couple of recent letters exemplify my point.
“Economic hardship ahead” (April 26, TribLive) warns of impending doom we can expect from Donald Trump’s presidency. In it, the writer wails of “tax breaks for the rich,” as well as inflation. I am nowhere close to being rich. Yet Trump’s 2017 tax cuts put $1,700 more in my bank account per year. And had the writer looked up the inflation figures since Trump returned to office, they would have seen that inflation has actually come down.
In “What Trump has done in 3 months” (April 25, TribLive) the writer can’t stop frenetically repeating MAGA, MAGA, MAGA, but like most lefties he won’t, or can’t, tell us who he’s talking about. Does it include all 77 million people who voted for Trump? Is it everyone who wears a red hat? The writer rails about Trump “attacking universities” and “threatening the free press.” Once again, no evidence for either claim is presented. If he’s talking about withholding tax dollars to rich universities, how is that attacking them? They can continue their left-wing propaganda, I just shouldn’t have to pay for it. What of “threatening the free press”? I fail to see how offering more access to more outlets than any previous president is threatening. Trump gives more interviews in a week than President Joe Biden gave in four years.
Lefties, at least tether yourselves to reality before putting fingers to keyboards.
Richard Byers
Mt. Pleasant