A must-read editorial for MAGA minions | Letters to the editor
Readers respond with intense praise and criticism over the Sun Sentinel's "national political suicide" editorial.
I want to congratulate you on your recent editorial, “A Republican warning of national political suicide,” on May 15.
Unfortunately, those who should read it the most, the MAGA cult, won’t.
I consider the majority of them gullible and ignorant. That they continue to rally behind Trump, no matter what he does, continues to astound me.
If, and it’s a big if, Trump is somehow elected again and takes control of the country, it will be the end of this country. This I firmly believe, and fear.
Alan B. Wackerling, Plantation
Can’t sink any lower
Just when you think that a newspaper’s editorial board couldn’t sink any lower than the Democratic Party’s last three presidential standard-bearers (Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton and Joe Biden), who respectively referred to millions of Americans as “bitter clingers,” “deplorables,” “irredeemables” and “semi-fascists,” the editorial board proves you wrong by comparing those same Americans to Kool-Aid-drinking suicidal cultists.
Keep up the good work while Florida turns even redder.
Arnold Ahlert, Boca Raton
Maybe ‘going low’ is better
Former First Lady Michelle Obama famously said, “When they go low, we go high,” referring to Trump’s bullying tactics in the 2016 presidential campaign.
It was a message for Democrats to behave differently than someone who treats others with disdain. Unfortunately, adhering to that maxim in the era of Trump is a recipe for political suicide. To the MAGA minions, including many Republicans in Congress, civil discourse is a thing of the past.
Despite a robust economy, with 15 million new jobs and unemployment rates at record low levels, the electorate, particularly in crucial swing states, seems unimpressed with President Biden’s accomplishments. A record of consequential legislation has done little to offset this lack of enthusiasm.
Is “going low” paying dividends? Trump, aided by the media’s lopsided coverage of his relentless assaults on Biden’s character and policies, is winning the messaging game. The time has come for the Biden camp to launch an overwhelming counteroffensive, replete with highlight reels of Trump’s personal and professional failings — or risk losing in November.
Jim Paladino, Tampa
Hysterical editorial
You can tell Democrats are in trouble after reading the hysterical Sun Sentinel editorial of May 15.
The editors are panicking, using pejorative terms like dictator, wife-cheater, election-denier and cult leader in describing Donald Trump.
No mention was made of the disastrous policies of the Biden administration such as sky-high inflation, a failed migrant policy, rampant crime in major blue cities, a foreign policy in shambles, a president with cognitive issues and a clueless vice president.
Most polls show that Biden’s popularity is in the dumper. Do the people realize that, under Trump, things were much better than they are today?
The Sun Sentinel’s hysterical condemnation of Trump is so much partisan blather. The paper’s animus toward Trump is obvious, as it seems you are blinded to the facts by your liberal ideology. Be prepared for the unthinkable: a Trump victory in November.
Chuck Lehmann, Delray Beach
Another day of infamy?
Dates in American history that will live in Infamy: Dec. 7,1941 (Japan bombs Pearl Harbor); Sept. 11, 2001 (Twin Towers and Pentagon are attacked); Jan. 6, 2021, the insurrection at the U.S. Capitol.
Remember what retired General John Kelly, one of Trump’s former chiefs of staff, said of him: “The depth of his dishonesty is just astounding to me. He is the most flawed person I have ever met in my life.”
We need to keep General Kelly’s remarks in mind when we mark our ballots in the November 5, 2024 presidential election, lest we turn that day into another Day of Infamy in our country.
Donald Kogan, Boca Raton