Re: “After four years, here’s why this never-Trumper is voting for Trump,” Oct. 11 commentary
How disingenuous is Krista Kafer’s commentary in favor of reelecting Donald Trump! First, she creates commonality with many who are disgusted by his immorality, by claiming that she, too, was once a “never-Trumper.” Then she “grudgingly” concedes she must cast her vote for him after all.
Why? Well, she repeats old canards about the passage of the Affordable Care Act. She mourns her British friend, whose death she blames on “socialized medicine,” apparently implying that her friend would have fared better in the United States without any health insurance at all.
She extols Trump’s disastrous response to the coronavirus, which cost tens of thousands of American lives, in part by making apple-to-orange comparisons with infectious diseases whose worldwide spread was less pervasive.
She applauds Trump’s gutting of regulations (“regulatory overreach”) that protect the air we breathe and the water we drink, not to mention laws that stand between us and the juggernaut of climate change.
She thrills that Trump avoided starting “protracted military engagement,” forgetting that the last president who got us into such engagement with Iraq and Afghanistan was NOT a Democrat.
Kafer leaves out Trump’s fomenting of racism, his scapegoating of particular ethnic groups, his attempts to rig the election by destroying the postal service, and his pandering to Putin and other unsavory dictators.
So while Kafer simply sees no choice but to give this administration four more years to drive America deeper into corruption and ruin, the rest of us do have a choice.
Ellen Steiner, Boulder
Note from KBJ: Stop projecting your immorality onto President Trump, Ellen. And get some help for your Trump Derangement Syndrome.
