Las Vegas Sun

May 20, 2024

Letter to the Editor:

Americans don’t want a dictator

Donald Trump has misjudged our nation’s character. Doesn’t he know the passion of people who want to be free through democracy, not autocracy? He says he will only be a dictator for a day, but in his last term, he ignored or fired advisers who disagreed with him and he openly admires dictators like Russian President Vladimir Putin and Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan.

Trump ignored health advisers about COVID-19 killing thousands and collapsing our economy by mishandling its severity.

Should people live under a tyrant who makes laws filled with inequalities, such as permanent tax reductions for the rich and temporary reductions for the middle class? Trump displays inhumanity (mocking disabled individuals) and promotes injustice (saying he could kill someone in front of people and get away with it). What gives him the right to decide what health care people will get? He’s not a doctor.

Shouldn’t people resist a man who is choking them to death?