Letter to a Trump Hating Friend

April 2021 published on "Going Postal" website

I’ve taken some time to read and reread your prior emails, so that I can respond in a useful way. I do have another take on some of the issues you mentioned and will note those, but I appreciated your second email wherein you distilled these down to my view of Trump as a human being and his ability to lead the country down a civil and reasonable path, rather than be divisive.

As to his level of morality, we can agree that he has many bad personal qualities in how he expresses himself publicly.  I agree that he certainly got carried away in his use of Twitter, etc.  As a side issue, he used this to “control” public discourse about him and his presidency, as the media were constantly obsessed with his latest missives. The detriment was that they did little actual investigation and reporting on what was actually happening in the real world as a result of his governmental actions and policies. His experience in business empowered his insistence on doing things his way, an inability to effe…