Dear Mr. Trump:

Why don’t you denounce the Boise, Idaho knife attack on refugees?

Oh, I get it.  You don’t see anything worth denouncing or, if the knife attack makes you uncomfortable, you feel you cannot say anything against it for fear of turning off some of your supporters. That’s it, isn’t it?

This violence against refugees in Idaho and the attack on the Capital Gazette newspaper in Annapolis are the kinds of events that your presidency has encouraged. Remember when you talked about “the Second Amendment people” taking care of any Supreme Court nominee that a President Hilary Clinton might appoint? Remember when you asked that your supporters beat up protesters and promised to pay the legal fees of anyone arrested for such violence?

We all understood what you were saying: Violence against those you don’t like is all right. Violence against those with whom you have a grudge is all right. Violence against those who disagree with your political views is all right. Wink, wink.

Long before you were elected, we knew what kind of country you were trying to create. And you may have won the battle, but not the war.

True Americans despise your so-called leadership. True Americans recognize that you have no values except your own promotion. We will turn out at the polls in November.

Very truly yours,

Bruce J. Berger