To the editor:

I continually read columns and letters to the editor, not necessarily The Breeze.  I can only shake my head and say tsk, tsk to the constant Trump criticisms and accusations. Those comments all seem to express their concerns about Trump that are extreme assumptions with no foundation. For example, there is a continual concern that Trump is trying to build an oligarchy country and that he is killing democracy. The personal imaginations are frequent and speculative.

I was most disappointed in an article by the conservative columnist David French when he wrote a very negative article about Trump that was also full of extreme accusations, many of them speculative. Many celebrities and well known media people fall in this back alley of emotions.

Also not present in these negative comments are the long list of action steps by Trump to clean up the mess that Biden and whoever ran the White House left.  Once in a while there is a criticism about what he had done but they are also slanted and biased.  For example ICE is arresting and deporting thousands of illegal migrant criminals and there are complaints about the ICE officers wearing masks. That is about as far out as you can get when the same people support protest by people wearing masks so that their criminal acts won’t be recorded. The ICE officers use it to protect their families.  

Note murders are lower than any year for a generation and much of it is due to the arrest and deporting of illegal migrant criminals who are the worst of the worst. Even convicted murderers were let into this country by whoever ran the White House.

My conclusion is that the negatives about Trump are due primarily to hate. I have no idea why but hate is the only explanation for this criticism. There are very few arguments presented about his actions since taking the oval office in January. The many letters to the editors also reflect the same hate emotion. Of course if arguments were presented on the actions that Trump has taken that would be focused on America instead of on the person of Trump.

I will always remember decades ago discussing Reagan who was in office then. I loved what he was doing and who he was. A friend one day was listening and suddenly could not contain herself any longer, and said, “Oh, I just hate that Nancy Reagan”!

Expressing hate instead of arguing how America can be improved are two separate expressions, one constructive and the other destructive.

John Benedict

Cape Coral