To the editor:
The Times' Dec. 19 editorial, "Talking about climate change in Orwellian doublespeak doesn't make it go away," began with this sentence: "If President Trump were a reader of books, we'd recommend a nearly 70-year-old novel to him because it illustrates nicely both the absurdity and the danger of perverting language for political ends."
I think he has read George Orwell's "1984" and is using it as his playbook.
Here is one example: Apparently Trump does not favor words in our language that disagree with his beliefs. At the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the use of seven words—"vulnerable," "entitlement," "diversity," "transgender," "fetus," "evidence-based" and "science-based"—were reportedly banned from budget documents.
"He who controls the past controls the future. He who controls the present controls the past." Those words are from "1984," and they explain how Trump is creating the past that governments before him have been failures and that he alone can make our country "great again."
John Lynn, Carlsbad
