To The Editor:
I seem to find myself in the minority in today’s national Democratic Party.
I disagree with the tendency of most Democrats (including political candidates for Congress and those in the news media) to constantly bash Donald Trump over his obnoxious personality and his divisive comments.
As very-conservative “Morning Joe” Scarborough has said on his MSNBC show, when Democrats talk negatively about Trump, it just makes his supporters angrier and more protective of him, while corroborating their paranoid belief that the Democrats and the liberal part of the media are out to get Trump. Rather, as Joe suggests, Democrats need to focus on telling the people what their values are and on telling the people that the federal government can be a positive force for a lot of good in our country and that it can make life better for all Americans.
They don’t seem to realize that most Americans agree with them that we need to protect the safety-net programs such as Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, Food Stamps, College Student Loans, and Unemployment Insurance Benefits.
These are winning issues that we should be constantly talking about, not trashing Trump.
Sincerely,
Stewart B. Epstein
Sociology and social work professor emeritus at West Virginia University and Slippery Rock University
