Dear Trump:

I have been writing to you for three and one-half years, and sharing my letters with the public, about the danger you pose to our democracy. In one my first letters, February 17, 2017, I wrote:

You seem to think that, if lying got you where you are, lying will keep you there. You’re wrong, sir, just as President Nixon was wrong. He was the last president who threatened our democracy, and you are following in his footsteps, if not exceeding them,

and on February 22, 2017, I wrote:

You cannot control the minds of men and women who still love our democracy.

and again on March 6, 2017, I wrote:

What will you do next to undermine our democracy? What will you do next to encourage the haters in the country – the racists, the bigots – to use violence? What will you do next to make all free and decent people around the world gasp in astonishment at your ignorance and petulance?

Sadly, you got worse, not better. As I wrote to you on January 25, 2020, “you [have] irreparably damaged our democracy.”

Now you’re increasing the damage exponentially. You’re ordering federal forces to attack peaceful protesters and you’re threatening not to abide by the results of the 2020 election. Should you lose, it’s apparent you will call for an armed insurrection of your “Second Amendment people” against the legitimate and peaceful transfer of power that has always been – until now – the hallmark of our country.

Why are the Republicans in Congress letting you do this? You and they are a disgrace to what American stands for.

Very truly yours,

Bruce J. Berger