Dear Mr. Trump,

So much has been written already about your racial slurs – calling Haiti, El Salvador, and African nations “shithole countries” – that I almost hesitate to add to the maelstrom of disgusted response. But keeping silent is not a real option, not if I want our wonderful country to rid itself of the pest and pestilence that occupies the Oval Office, Sir.

You have again embarrassed our country beyond what anyone might have expected, even knowing how you praised the Klan and American Nazis as “some very find people.” How did we elect such a person as you, Sir, with your crudeness, vulgarity, and racism, traits which have made the United States a laughing-stock around the world? Why do Republicans continue to make excuses for you and refuse to hold you to the standards of decent humanity, thus becoming complicit with your racism? (Abraham Lincoln would be sickened to see that his Republican Party has fallen into the gutter, wallows in the mud there, and, through you, brags about its filth.)

You’ve encouraged the haters of this country to feel emboldened, Sir. You’ve set off a process that, I fear, will continue to destroy us long after you’re gone. The damage is irreparable. You’ve done what you wanted to do.

Very truly yours,

Bruce J. Berger