President deserves chance

After viewing reader comments across several editions of the Herald following the start of the hyperactive Trump presidency, I have been amazed by the negativity of some contributors. Thus far, I am impressed by the dynamism, effort, creativity and subjects the incoming administration is addressing — and agree with about 80% of this. I recognize that President Trump is deliberately “pushing the envelope” to codify the limits of Executive Branch power to rein in a bloated, ineffective, insensitive, dictatorial and insanely expensive federal government.

In addition to often being factually incorrect, the theme behind many readers’ observations is that the policies and practices of the Biden/Harris Administration were clearly preferable to those of the Trump Administration. Among the assertions is that Mr. Trump is subverting democracy to satisfy his billionaire friends. First, there is no group more anti-democracy than the Democratic Party, whose aim (fostered by gross illegal immigration) is to make all states Blue; and turn the nation into a one-party, socialistic society. And, as an October 2024 Forbes Magazine study found, 83 billionaires supported the Harris Campaign; and the Trump campaign was supported by 52.

Biden/Harris gave the nation a horrible invasion of undocumented. It managed foreign affairs badly. It spent tax dollars endlessly — and that produced high inflation and robbed every person of buying power and personal wealth. It put biological men on sports teams, women’s locker rooms and bathrooms, it favored criminals more than law-abiding citizens. It favored teachers’ unions and not kids. It favored waste and poor-performing employees.

Mr. Trump, using common sense ways, wants to re-create our government to better serve us. Commendably, he wants to erase the notion that we exist just to fund and obey the dictates of the federal leviathan. He deserves the chance to try. We all might win.

Charles F. Falk

Schaumburg