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

Here is Ann Coulter's latest column.

Wide Awake in America (1985). A beautiful song.

As a teacher of third-grade boys, I find any comparison of them to the current occupant of the Oval Office to be quite offensive and, frankly, misleading. By this point in the school year, third-grade boys are becoming more aware of their peers and the give-and-take of social interaction, that their words matter and that name-calling will not be tolerated.

Unfortunately, nearly a whole year into this presidency, Donald Trump has regressed to the point that his lashing out and name-calling have actually increased. At what point do even his supporters acknowledge how degrading his behavior is? As would happen to a third-grader still acting out at this point in the school year, there would be consequences to effect positive change. When are we going to see that same standard applied to Mr. Trump?

KATHY DAY

O’Hara

Note from KBJ: Degrading? Barack Obama's behavior was degrading. We love Donald Trump precisely because—get ready for it, Kathy—he doesn't take shit from you or anyone else.

Will be having meetings and working the phones from the Winter White House in Florida (Mar-a-Lago). Stock Market hit new Record High yesterday – $5.5 trillion gain since E. Many companies coming back to the U.S. Military building up and getting very strong.

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 22, 2017

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This isn't journalism; it's political assassination.

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I am breaking the promise I made to myself that I wouldn’t add to the 24/7 ridicule of the president of our once-united nation.

Sad is the way I am feeling about what is happening to us and the rest of the world. The sadness gives rise to frustration and anxiety; frustration about our seeming impotence and inability to do anything about it; anxiety, because I fear what I see happening daily, and what risks becoming imminent consequences, some too frightening even to contemplate.

There is some short-term comfort that assuages these feelings, when I watch and laugh during the late night comics’ monologues.

I nod in agreement when I read in respected publications well-written editorials and opeds that confirm my feelings and those in which solutions are proposed. But I am still fearful and anxious because nothing changes.

We hear and read about political infighting; amoral and ineffective leadership; juvenile tweeting; threats to our nation by a leader about which we know very little; racist rantings; abuses of constitutional amendments; the corrupting influence of wealth by the wealthy who don’t believe in everything many of us espouse as dear, decent, and fair; inequality and intolerance; the reluctance of most elected politicians to take a public stand on issues we hope they believe in their hearts; and the way our nation is now viewed by the world, through a myopic lens.

Are we the unintended victims of a democracy that has become chaotic? Is there anything we the people can do to calm down the chaos? Are we represented as we wish in the houses of our national government? Do we have the patience and are we civil enough to wait until 2018 or 2020?

I believe exercising patience is our only option. I am already feeling less anxious and less frustrated—but still sad.

ARVEY I. ROGERS,

MIAMI

Note from KBJ: Now you know how tens of millions of Americans felt for the past eight years, Arvey. Suck it up.

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I'm with Don Surber. First of all, I don't believe the women who are accusing Roy Moore, any more than I believed Anita Hill when she made scurrilous accusations against Clarence Thomas many years ago. Second, even if Moore did what he is accused of doing, so what? It was long ago. If he did something in the past year or so, that's different.