Dear Mr. Trump,

It’s no longer a surprise – it hasn’t been for a long time – that you are callous, selfish, uncaring, bigoted, and fraudulent. Your idea of “making America great” is to make America pure white, to return to the days of segregation, to disparage minority religious traditions, to foster division, to subvert democracy, to pay homage and support to foreign dictators and murderers. And it’s hardly a surprise that your supporters stoop to your low level, as hard as that may be.

Consider your supporters who respond to my postings only by saying “F*** You!”

Consider your supporters whose only response is to attack me for being a “liberal ass!”

Your nastiness has emboldened them to be nasty in turn.

Your ignorance has emboldened them to be ignorant in turn.

There’s hardly ever an effort by your supporters to engage in an intelligent discussion, because you’ve shown them that they need not think.

Please understand that these insults do not bother me personally. They disturb me for what it says about our society, i.e., that so many are ready to hate, following your lead, that so many are ready to silence the rest of  us – the real majority – by verbal attacks, by armed insurrection, by preventing people of color from voting.

So what do we do, we who still hope for a democratic America, we who respect all human life, we who aspire to the ideal that all are created equally? Run and hide? Pray that this Trumpian nightmare will end? Or do we raise our voices in protest and keep pointing to the evilness of your ways?

The right path is obvious, and we’ll keep fighting any presidential successor who tries to emulate you.

Very truly yours,

Bruce J. Berger