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Responding to the letter suggesting we kept calm and give Donald Trump a chance (“Keep calm, take stock and give Trump a chance,” Star-Advertiser, Feb. Opens in a new tab20) Opens in a new tab, I beg to differ.
From Day 1, Trump has done everything to undermine the rule of law and constitutional protections against executive overreach, and inflicted unwarranted and terrible harm against our democratic institutions and congressionally authorized programs without a vote. This is not to mention cruel and undeserved punishment against dedicated federal employees and contractors.
We cannot be calm and enable him to destroy American democracy. As Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker reminded us, it took Adolf Hitler less than a month to completely eviscerate Germany’s democratic government, decapitate political opposition and take complete autocratic control of all of Germany after his election.
With a spineless Republican Congress, he is well on his way to turn the U.S. into his own Trump Kingdom.
Francis M. Nakamoto
Moanalua
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