Dave Pratt: A kinder observation

Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump gestures at a campaign rally, March 2, 2024, in Richmond, Va. The Supreme Court has restored Donald Trump to 2024 presidential primary ballots, rejecting state attempts to hold the Republican former president accountable for the Capitol riot.

Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump gestures at a campaign rally, March 2, 2024, in Richmond, Va. The Supreme Court has restored Donald Trump to 2024 presidential primary ballots, rejecting state attempts to hold the Republican former president accountable for the Capitol riot. AP FILE PHOTO/STEVE HELBER

Published: 03-08-2024 1:41 PM

Modified: 03-08-2024 8:16 PM

Finding Daniel Brown’s Feb. 6 guest column “Trump’s brutal promise no joke,” not as “mean-spirited” as a writer suggested in a Feb. 9 letter, I wish to respond in a “kinder” way — not dwelling on “vermin” or “blood poisoning,” the former president’s love of parades, or his latest wish to mobilize “red” National Guard troops to occupy “blue” states. So.

Not wanting, or needing to, exhaust Godwin’s Law argument, I can be kinder to observe that strongmen belong in the circus, Trump isn’t a conservative, and he’s not even a Republican. He’s an autocratic mobster.

Dave Pratt

South Deerfield

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