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Let's hope Trump not saying what people are thinking

In the May 2 Daily Herald, Don Bekeleski claimed we should vote for Donald Trump because "he is saying what the people are thinking." This statement makes me wonder if is he really listening to what Trump is saying.

Trump is spouting fear and hatred, misogyny and racial bias. He encourages suspicion in our daily lives, spitting on the "melting pot" theory that made us a diverse and thriving nation.

He flouts the Constitution, his skewed interpretations spinning it into a document of separatism and bigotry.

Perhaps worst, he flip-flops however he thinks people want, catering to the lowest, basest of our human instincts, making promises people may want to hear but can never be fulfilled. His opinions should not be considered solid because they will change depending on his audience.

You want a right-to-life candidate? He will be that. Oh, wait, you want choice? Sure, he'll support that.

He is a schoolyard bully throwing foul insults at anyone who doesn't agree with him (at the moment). He encourages violence, and will reinforce an "ugly American" image so many have tried so hard to erase.

He is an actor, blatantly declaring that he will be "presidential" when he has to be. But he is a circus sideshow, eager to be a licentious, self-aggrandizing hatemonger as long as the crowd, bored with politics as usual, eats it up.

And you say he is saying what people are thinking? That's probably the scariest part of this whole miasma. If that is truly what the American people think, then we are in much deeper trouble than we think.

Joyce Becker Lee

Mundelein

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