Letters: Mitch McConnell and I don't want younger generations to go through polio

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

86% : In the list of "accomplishments" that Donald Trump enthusiast JoAnn Lee Frank offers ("Trump is a legend," Dec. 16), I have noticed something interesting.
66% : Her list includes several items that would benefit Trump, but I saw nothing that I think or that she even suggests would be beneficial for the United States.
52% : Donald Trump carried 88 of the 102 Illinois counties in the presidential election.
51% : I wonder, as she touts Trump as a strong leader, if she shares his enthusiasm for leaders whom he regards as strong because they are not subject to the will of their people, a situation that I suspect that he aspires to.
48% : Without that stain, Trump (and John McCain and Mitt Romney preceding him) would have carried the state.
48% : However, without that gun to my head, I would bet, as I have all along, that Trump has been a lucky bluffer and that his second term will not be, as he hopes, about retribution but about an overdue reckoning for him as his luck runs out.--
47% : Donald Trump says he will follow RFK Jr.'s advice on vaccines.
47% : But what of the rest of us?Even though Trump did everything within his means to subvert the democratic process and stay in power following the 2020 election, including putting a target on his vice president's back during an insurrection, we're still going to docilly hand the reins of government over to him?
45% : Even though Trump just appointed a billionaire businessman to co-chair a specially created Department of Government Efficiency operating outside the government -- after having accepted more than $250 million in campaign contributions from this same businessman -- we're to seriously believe Trump has the interests of American citizens, and not his cronies and big business, at heart?
41% : He's got a sprained wrist, and I've broken my right wrist twice as I ill-advisedly tried to break my fall when I tripped.
41% : These "Weimer" Republicans wanted to win at all costs and, like the old fable, knew all along that Trump was a scorpion.
39% : I think they would join me in stating my 100% support for McConnell's position that any "efforts to undermine public confidence in proven cures are not just uninformed -- they're dangerous.
37% : It is awarded for newsworthiness, which is why Adolf Hitler, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, Vladimir Putin and Josef Stalin (twice, like Trump) have been chosen for it.
35% : Even though Trump has shown no regard or respect for America's government, its laws, its processes and its people, we're just supposed to dumbly follow the usual steps to a transition of power -- and expect him to ever hand it back?
27% : Even though Trump is a convicted felon and was also found liable for battery when a civil court jury believed the sexual assault claims against him, we're still going to gladly install as president a man of such low character?
26% : Yet Donald Trump, the present leader of that party, can be described only as a radical, determined to upset many of the institutions that are in place.
26% : I'm confused.-- Don Draganski, EvanstonIf Democrats can and have been rigging elections, as President-elect Donald Trump and some other Republicans have been claiming, how is it that Trump has apparently won two of the last three presidential elections?
24% : Like them, Trump makes bad news, and he makes a lot of it.
23% : She clearly can find no fault with Trump.
10% : Our democracy depends on it.-- Teri Pehta, Glen EllynI respectfully disagree with Storer H. Rowley's assessment that the GOP has buyer's remorse about Donald Trump or his Cabinet picks ("Trump's Cabinet picks are giving Republicans buyer's remorse," Dec. 15).

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