Dear editor:
Ann MacKinnon's inflammatory letter demonstrates precisely the kind of dialogue that led to two assassination attempts on the life of Donald Trump last year, an assassination attempt on the life of a Supreme Court judge, and the recent murder of Charlie Kirk.
In no instance does she cite actions taken by the Trump administration that actually violate US law, but her non-specific, (apparently personally injurious) laments are not productive and serve to elevate the personal attack nature of political disagreements taking place in the country at this moment.
To refute just one of her exaggerations, the "Gold Card" program that the administration recently implemented is simply an enhancement of the EB-5 Visa program that Congress established in 1990.
Repeated references to the president as a "dictator" are unhelpful and inflammatory and defy the fact that the legally elected Trump administration, when challenged on policy by the lower courts, is steadfastly appealing unwarranted judicial interference by appealing those lower court decisions, thereby demonstrating appropriate patience and acting in complete concord with our system of laws.
Personal attacks and broad, unsubstantiated generalizations and inflammatory language associated with them are not helpful and out of character with our national history of peaceful, agreeable disagreement.
It should be noted that actions taken by the Trump administration, including withholding unwarranted gifts of billions of taxpayer dollars from Ivy League universities that already sit on piles of cash in the tens of billions of dollars, have been taken in order to end illegal and discriminatory behavior by those universities.
That this is necessary and warranted is obvious, given the magnitude of the current US debt; but it is also the law.
We need to end the unjustifiable broad brush personal attacks now and return to discussing specifics of policy and working toward compromise.
Sincerely,
Roy Frybarger, Cheyenne
