Readers sound off on racial politics, recycling legislation and Vietnam-era teachers

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

43% : Celestino P. MonclovaHicksville, L.I.: Regarding all the Monday morning quarterbacking in an effort to understand how Trump won, I submit that the answer is obvious: There was no way the cretins in this country were going to allow a Black woman into "their" White House.
40% : But many voting women whose reproductive rights Trump stripped away, Gold Star families he disrespected and whose funds he taxed, and Puerto Ricans he abandoned and allowed to be insulted all voted for him because, in spite of his heavy orange glow of inferiority and treachery, he gave them the false pride of being better than those whose pigmentation is darker than theirs.
34% : I do see the silver lining in that Trump promises to deport all migrants who are criminals.
32% : If Trump follows through on giving Kennedy a consequential position in his administration having anything to do with the nation's health care system, the Senate must do its job and reject that nomination in short order!
27% : Full disclosure, I did not vote for Trump.
25% : It's getting difficult to keep up with Trump, and he's not even president yet!
20% : As Johnson stated, they did not see Trump picking their pockets, and in fact, many of them even emptied their own pockets by purchasing his tacky sneakers, autographed Bibles and virtual playing cards.
16% : In 2017, Trump referred to Andrew Jackson, the father of the "white republic" and a genocidal tyrant who spoke of recapturing or killing all those who he felt didn't belong here, as "a reflection of myself"!

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