Grateful for lessons from Trump campaign

The ethical moral and legal universe should be eternally grateful that Donald J. Trump is running for president in 2024. His public appearances have exposed overt racism, compulsive and pathological lying, stoking violence at the Capitol, swearing vengeance on his political opponents, vowing to free convicted felons and violating the very essence of the oath of office. His behavior should be a lesson for existing and future democracies around the world.

His immoral conduct which includes being found responsible for sexual assault, mocking the disabled, threatening to shoot peaceful protesters, applauding a foreign dictator for his invasion of another country, has revealed his own narcissistic xenophobia. This conduct must be crucial in vetting any presumptive head of state.

His multiple indictments for stealing classified documents, planning the stratagem to overthrow a legitimate democracy, invoking the ascendancy of tyrants in the past like Adolf Hitler who said in a speech in 1940, that he’ll make Germany great again should be a warning to any country in danger of authoritarian rule.

How else will the world’s democracies know the dastardly perils of torturous repression and forfeiture of individual freedoms if Donald Trump, who has boldly revealed who he really is, weren’t a broadly exposed and vulnerable candidate for the 2024 election.

Loretta. A. Ridley

Schaumburg