Editor,
Several recent letters to the Daily Journal have gone back and forth debating whether this coming election is about President Biden or former President Trump.
Editor,
Several recent letters to the Daily Journal have gone back and forth debating whether this coming election is about President Biden or former President Trump.
I don’t understand how this issue can even be debated. Donald Trump is the first president in American history to try to upend the peaceful transfer of power. His whole campaign is built on “retribution” meaning that he will be going after his political enemies using the powers of the federal government. Former aide John Bolton says that he will have the United States leave NATO if elected.
Donald Trump has never had a bad word to say about Vladimir Putin and he has quoted and praised Adolf Hitler. Donald Trump seems to favor authoritarian tyrants in the world while denigrating America’s democratic allies. Right wing activist groups have put together a Project 2025 agenda that will expand the power of the executive branch while diminishing the power of the other two branches of the federal government.
If elected again, instead of a far right 6-3 majority on the Supreme Court, it could get even more extreme, jeopardizing decades of rights and freedoms Americans have become accustomed to. President Biden may be old, but he represents the status quo, and the bipartisan traditions that have made America the great country it is. Donald Trump would transform the country from a democracy to an autocracy. I don’t know how anyone can possibly argue that this election isn’t about Donald Trump.
Loren Spiekerman
Foster City
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(5) comments
Hey Loren - you have not noticed what Biden has been doing with his plethora of Executive Orders: "that will expand the power of the executive branch while diminishing the power of the other two branches of the federal government?" What do you believe these orders entail? Not a threat to democracy? Our democracy has already been trashed by Biden's gang and you still support him? Masochism at its best.
To paraphrase Yoda, “The hate for Trump overcoming their love for America is strong with this one.” Loren, while I appreciate your taking the time to submit an LTE, unfortunately, your diatribe comes across as more hysterical Trump Derangement Syndrome screeching. As Michael Oberg wrote in another of today’s LTEs and which is directly applicable to your LTE, “When people write an opinion letter about something they don’t know, they make things up and lie, without evidence. It is true ignorance.” In the meantime, vote for our great President Trump to Take America Back. BTW, to show it’s about Biden, do a quick search for “timeless quotes by Joe Biden” and watch the video.
Agree 100% with this LTE. Support for a conman, grifter, insurrectionist, and now convicted felon who has actually said he will be a dictator if reelected is inconceivable to me.
Apparently, SMpool, treasonous Biden, his crime family, and Biden’s America Last policies are also inconceivable to you as you continue to willfully ignore Biden’s incompetence. BTW, you should be blaming Pelosi for letting your supposed “insurrection” occur. Pelosi admitted as much.
Loren, please provide us fools with one example of Trump's "retribution and attacking his political enemies"? Just one, pretty please. Hope you don't fall asleep and ghost us all, please inform us so we can be on top of things. What? You want a real example from the rightwing extremists of a president attacking his political enemies? Did you know Joe Biden, he's technically still our President, worked with Bragg in NY? Your turn Loren
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