Resentment is key to victorious MAGA movement

I find it interesting that eight years down the road the Trump snowflakes are still whining about Hillary Clinton calling supporters of Donald Trump “a basket of deplorables.” Meanwhile, the insult machine himself goes on a tear calling his political opponents “scum” and “the enemy” and words you can’t print in a newspaper (“Trump wins the White House in a political comeback rooted in appeals to frustrated voters,” Nov. 6).

Resentment sure does fuel the MAGA movement, a sadly deplorable fact.

— Charles Rammelkamp, Baltimore

Trump has sparked a terrible revolution

To me, the shining city on the hill is no more. As someone on Star Trek once said: “Resistance is futile!” That’s where I am right now. It’s their country and what they’re going to do with it is whatever they want. They will not be stopped and they will rule for generations.

I see no pathway for resistance to Donald Trump’s return to power. What would resistance look like? The Roman republic, the Greek democracy, and so many other seemingly strong governments did not last. The same is true of us.

This is the Third Revolution (“How Donald Trump won and made an historic comeback,” Nov. 6).

In the American Revolution, we beat the Brits largely because they could not afford to and did not want to fight anymore. In the Civil War (the Second Revolution), we put an end to slavery and changed the relationship between government and the citizenry.

We now sadly are witnessing the beginning of the Third Revolution, the ascendancy of Trump and his acolytes. They will dismantle America as we know it and as we hoped it would be. Nothing will stop them. Divided government was our last hope and they have apparently kept the U.S. House of Representatives.

So, to me, it’s game over. I’m just going to live the rest of my life trying to avoid the Trump Era running over me.

Trump will reshape the federal judiciary so the courts will never get in his way. When the military is told to keep the peace in American cities and to round up illegal immigrants and put them in camps, I doubt the answer will be: “No, we swore an oath to the Constitution not you.”

It’s just awful for this to happen near the end of my life. Had the U.S. Supreme Court not elected George W. Bush by one vote, we’d be in a very different place.

I doubt the framers ever contemplated that a convicted felon who has been impeached twice (though not convicted) and who has throughout his life abused women would ever be elected as President of the United States.

— Jack Tranter, Baltimore

Election a setback for moral universe

Regarding the outcome of the 2024 presidential election, our apologies to the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (“Trump wins the White House in a political comeback rooted in appeals to frustrated voters,” Nov. 6).

The late Dr. King wrote, “the arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice.”

That arc just got longer.

— Eugene Wu, Sparks

Trump wins — by tapping our worst fears, prejudices

In the face of yet another Trumpian outrage, the late great Congressman Elijah Cummings would often exclaim “we’re better than this.” Well, I guess we’re not (“Trump wins the White House in a political comeback rooted in appeals to frustrated voters,” Nov 6).

Donald Trump wins by tapping into our worst fears and prejudices which, apparently, trump our better angels. H.L. Mencken said it best: “Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.”

— Herb Cromwell, Catonsville

Bias against Trump

The bias in your reporting and on your editorial page with respect to Donald Trump’s victory is breathtaking. The Associated Press’s coverage on page 1 begins with a litany of real and perceived issues involving Mr. Trump, continues on page 2 to highlight his “coarse rhetoric “and finally ends with a statement attributing his victory to his engendering anger and resentment among voters (“Trump wins the White House in a political comeback rooted in appeals to frustrated voters,” Nov. 6).

Your editorial, ironically pointing to a lack of political neutrality as a contributing factor for Mr. Hogan’s defeat, paints a picture of impending doom, urging your readers “to do our best to support our country despite its deeply flawed commander in chief ” and warns of “inevitable national crises” (“Maryland voters take the road less traveled | STAFF COMMENTARY,” Nov. 7).

If the election were a sporting event, the Sunpapers would be the poster boy for a bad loser.

— William T. Define, Lutherville