To The Reader’s Forum:

So, is MAGA thrilled that over 1500 criminals, that is, those who agreed to having committed crimes against the U.S. or were convicted of crimes currently in the U.S. criminal code by juries of their peers, have been pardoned by Donald Trump? Is MAGA similarly thrilled that Pete Morocco was selected to “head”, if that is what one calls it, the U.S. Agency for International Development, where Trump/DOGE fired over 13,000 employees?

Is MAGA thrilled that poor people, currently working or those that cannot, will lose Medicaid coverage to pay for tax cuts to the top 1% of incomes, whether those incomes are derived from working or not? Is MAGA thrilled that the elderly and disabled workers, and some of their families, are expected to lose services and likely benefits of the Social Security and Medicare programs? (BTW, if you’re one of those people who think Social Security and Medicare will not be there when they come to retire, you can thank Congress for not raising the cap on income to support them over the years.)

Per The Nation, Trump and Co. have created “The J6 Government”, a “Stalinesque exercise in manipulating and falsifying the historical record” of the programs and institutions America has relied on over many years. Further examples include Trump falsely blaming the tragic collision of aircraft recently in Washington, D.C., on D.E.I., the attempt to banish the word “gay” (as in the picture of the airplane named “Enola Gay” – named after the pilot’s mother – that dropped an atomic bomb on Japan), the cruel and unjustified suspension of funding to the National Institutes of Health, trying to end the Constitutional guarantee of citizenship at birth. The list of imaginary “solutions” for imaginary “crimes” goes on.

Are those what MAGA voted for? Do you need a reminder that the price of eggs is still high (as are groceries in general)? Do you understand that prices are expected to rise due to tariffs? Would it help you that the Wall Street Journal, Tesla and SpaceX boards were worried that Elon Musk was doing so much “LSD, cocaine, ecstasy, mushrooms and ketamine”? Other than being rich and profiting off government contracts and giving millions to the Trump (and others) campaign what qualifies Musk to serve in the Trump administration?

Wake me from the national nightmare when it’s over!

Paul L. Demler

Jamestown