Trump’s return to White House is what we need

The US president is the most powerful person in our country, and arguably in the world. Yet we have people voting for Kamala Harris because she’s Black, a woman and promotes abortion.

She has held very few press conferences. If she can’t take unscripted questions from the media, how can she stand up to China’s President Xi, Russia’s President Putin and Iran’s leaders? She couldn’t even make it through a “live” interview. CBS edited one of her “60 Minutes” answers before release.

In Kamala’s recent Michigan “Town Hall’, the audience was informed that questions were predetermined. This woman has been vice president for three-and-a-half years, and she cannot even competently answer questions unless they are known in advance. Is this who you want to put in charge of the security of your family and your nation?

Donald Trump is not a politician who guards his words carefully to avoid offending anyone. But we don’t need a politician now. We need a businessman who will bring prices down to the levels of his term. We need an “America First” leader who will put US citizens above illegal immigrants. We need a tough-on-crime leader who will help make the streets of our cities safer. We need a leader who, as he did in his term, unearthed war through strength. We need someone to secure our borders.

We’re not voting for a sweetheart. We’re voting for someone to lead and protect our country. Kamala Harris is not a leader.

Angie Many, Eckert

Trump should not be normalized

Re: “Democracy requires understanding how someone can vote for Trump,” Oct. 24 commentary

In his commentary, David Mills apologizes for those in the Donald Trump orbit, while urging Kamala Harris voters to show “humanism” on their behalf.

Look: We all know Trump voters. They’re among our neighbors, friends, family members. They deserve a place in the sun. That’s not the point. Mills, like so many of today’s media, is bending over backward to normalize Trump, a self-avowed authoritarian, while disparaging those who oppose what he represents. This is deeply unfair and unseeming.

Mills demeans Vice President Harris for standing up to form President Trump’s endless claims that he can use power without restraint against any he counts as enemies. Ignoring Trump’s endless stream of lies, misogynist attacks, racist insults and embrace of dictators, Mills says Harris is being “hysterical” for calling him out.

Timothy Snyder, the historian and leading expert on tyranny, notes that “most of the power of authoritarianism is freely given.” Mills is not alone. All those who downplay General John Kelly’s revelations and even attack Trump’s former chief of staff for noting the ex-president’s fascist beliefs are also, in their way, bowing to the ugliest currents in our political culture. We’ve seen this before, as “good Germans” enabled the rise of Hitler in the 1930s.

Democracies are not immortal. Harris deserves praise for reminding Americans what’s at stake on Nov. 5. It’s our inheritance, our children’s chance to live in freedom.

Charlotte Roe, Berthoud

Racism has no place at political rally

Re: “Trump’s Madison Square Garden event turns into rally with crude, racist insults,” Oct. 28 news story