Keith Burgess-Jackson, J.D., Ph.D.

To the Editor:

Re “Trump Takes to Twitter in Defense of Transition” (news article, Nov. 17):

On Nov. 10, President Obama told President-elect Donald Trump, “If you succeed, then the country succeeds.”

With all due respect, Mr. President, that is entirely wrong. Virtually every item on the Trump administration’s to-do list makes the country weaker, from the gutting of environmental and financial regulation, to the destabilization of international security treaties, to reducing access to health care, to the terrorization of young people working and studying under Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA.

More to the point, the stunning disarray, nepotism, score-settling and incompetence of the Trump transition effort make clear that your administration will not be “assisting” a transition. You will be the ones making the transition happen.

History and the national interest may demand that you not be obstructionist. But nothing requires a more positive effort in the transition, except for national security.

The courtesy of President Bush toward you is not the same: Your teams met with his, as professionals in government, albeit with policy differences. Instructing Islamophobic kooks, white supremacists and oil industry hacks in how better to degrade America is something else entirely.

CHRISTOPHER KUTZ

Berkeley, Calif.

Note from KBJ: This is what passes for argumentation in law-faculty lounges. Talk about angry white males!

Out of the Silent Planet (1988). This is the first song on the band's first album.

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Here is Ann Coulter's latest column.

Yer’ Album (1969). O.M.G.

To the Editor:

The people have spoken, but how long will it take before buyer’s remorse sets in?

Will it happen when President Donald Trump signs a new tax bill that provides huge tax cuts for the wealthy while providing little or no relief to the middle class?

Will it be when the Republicans in Washington repeal the Affordable Care Act, leaving millions of Americans without health insurance?

Or will it be when those manufacturing jobs don’t come back to America and those coal mining jobs continue to evaporate while income inequality continues to rise?

Or when they realize that the business and financial elite still occupy the halls of power in Washington, and no one is listening to the voices of the rest of us?

Sadly, the disaffected who voted for change for the average American will find that the only change that was achieved was for the benefit of the entitled wealthy class.

JAY N. FELDMAN

Port Washington, N.Y.

Note from KBJ: Because things are just dandy after eight years of Barack Obama.

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