May 27, 2017 3 min read

I got a kick out of the May 21 letter from Pam Morosky, who criticizes me for my well-known opposition to most everything that is said and done by President Trump. She indicates that “these people are nothing but jealous.” Is it not possible to criticize one for their misdeeds without jealousy being behind it?

She also says that because the election is over, we should “move on.” I wonder if she would have “moved on” and remained silent and supportive if the individual who won a clear majority of the popular vote had also won the Electoral College and been placed in the White House. Would she and other Trump loyalists have been preaching that we must accept President Hillary Clinton? Her candidate was the only one who promised and served to encourage riots if he had lost the election.

As far as jealousy, maybe Morosky is correct, as I do not have the “qualities” that this president does. I would never have been able to engage in his level of incompetence or inflicted the amount of worldwide chaos that he has delivered as he has cozied up to our Russian enemy while offending and insulting longtime allies like Great Britain, Germany, Canada, Israel, and Mexico. I would not have been stupid enough to fire the FBI director as he was hot on the trail of Russian connections to the administration, nor to offer conflicting explanations for it. I would never have boasted of engaging in sexual assault. I am able to form complete English sentences, and I do not repeatedly say, “believe me,” end sentences with, “OK?” or refer to everything an opponent does as a “disaster.”

Morosky implores us to “give the president a chance.” We have given him more than a chance. He has squandered these opportunities. That is why multiple prominent conservative writers have recognized the damage, condemning the administration and urging that the president keep his big mouth shut and relinquish his phone if he wishes to accomplish anything.

The credo of most Republican members of Congress is, “We despise everything about Donald Trump. He embarrasses us on a daily basis. We must keep our mouths shut, though, because he is our only ticket to the slashing of entitlement programs so as to benefit the wealthy. All that preaching about family and moral values? We did not mean it. We elected the man who flies in the face of such once-cherished, now junked tenets.”

I thank Morosky for having the courage to admit the calamity that she served to inflict on the country as a Trump voter. As the nation burns, I suppose it is fortunate that some who choose to wear blinders are happy.

Oren Spiegler

Upper St. Clair