To the editor:

In the depths of the Great Depression, a real President and leader, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, calmly looked to soothe the minds of the populace with his “fireside chats.” … Of course, such sane speech would run afoul of the current president’s inflammatory rhetoric to spread fear. Project 2025, about which the president disavows any knowledge, would also be unhappy without the president’s minions being allowed to run the show and implement their scheme while DJT is busy golfing, doctoring, and micro-managing the interior decorating of what’s left of the White House.

The reassurances of a “fireside chat” or an inflammatory, whiny, low-energy, rehashing of personal grievances…? I know which kind of message could provide a positive note that I’d care to hear. …. We’ve seen the President at his worst with his incendiary rhetoric to “fight like hell” in his marching orders to his followers on Jan. 6.

In our current state of national unrest, we are told bald-faced lies … and are plagued with example after example of presidential overreach. The hard-core people of MAGA are willfully blind to Trump’s criminality and are determined to excuse any transgressions. The left sees through the lies as they have from their genesis. Fortunately, more and more people left of MAGA’s lifetime Trump apologists and enablers are awakening to the reality of what he’s done to explode inflation, shred the Constitution and Bill of Rights, and imperil the futures of the majority of Americans. A recent poll indicating a 37% approval rating should be a wake-up call…still our Pollyanna president bulls his way forward and attacks any negative signal that he’s given as being so much “fake news.”

Something’s got to give.

Keith R. Klawitter

Morgan