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A recent writer (Aug.10) asks what President Trump does that Democrats hate.
Hate is a strong word, and we're enjoined to hate the sin but love the sinner. I can't pretend to love Donald J. Trump, but I don't hate him or his minions.
Many people confused "The Apprentice" with actual life, and the confusion haunts us today. "The Apprentice" was entertainment, made for TV. The show was a gig for a skilled showman like Trump, a godsend as his hotels and casinos floundered. The show was a financial lifeline for Trump, who'd been failing in business for years. (Check out any news source from the '90s.)
Be that as it may, our United States of America is not a business or a corporation beholden to market trends and investors. Business works for profit and private gain, not for the safety and well-being of people.
Our country is people: millions of people with wildly different situations and needs. A good leader knows this instinctively and tries to lead Congress to find common ground.
When we find ourselves unemployed, or disabled, or struggling and old, we need more than poorly strategized tariffs (Canada? Really?) and forever wars. We need something other than pardoning the Jan. 6 scumbags who tried to kill cops and then tried to reward them financially. (Now, that's something I honestly hate.)
President Trump believes in survival of the fittest and culling the herd. In business, people are often expendable.
Trump thinks that gaming the system is the right kind of win, and business means "pay to play". He defines people as "winners" or "losers," and blames the losers for their own loss. (Except when he loses, then of course it's a fraud.) I hate that he treats innocent people as "the worst of the worst" and deports them or locks them away. Trump's ardent supporters seem to agree, though most likely he sees them as chumps.
President Trump wants to stay top dog in his dog-eat-dog world; at the rate he's going, he'll give us all plenty to hate, even those who elected him twice.
Gail Crowe is a Fredonia resident.