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, Evanston If 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 Ellyn I 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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