Opinion : To the Editor: Thoughts on Trump, Sessions and the GOP control of government

By Rosemary Schwartz UPDATE: Popular vote totals, Nov. 29, Clinton 64,869,961 or 48% of the vote, Trump 62,536,045 or 46.27%. Clinton's margin has increased to 2,333,916. Even with the recounts currently proceeding, those numbers may change a little but probably not enough to make any real difference. Trump with his insecure ego cannot accept the fact that the majority of voters did not vote for him and continues to insist without any proof, that he is actually the popular vote winner because millions of illegal votes were cast for Clinton. What doesn't he get? He won the electoral college and that is what counts. His ego is so fragile he is trying to delegitimize his own win!! John Stiegelmeyer must also have a thin-skin and a fragile ego because he complained that he is fed up with being painted as "racist, homophobic, intolerant, narrow-minded deplorable" because he supported Trump. John fails to understand that if you support a candidate like Trump who says these things, by association you either agree with what Trump says or don't care what he says. Which is worse? John came to Sen. Sessions defense after Trump's offered Sessions the position of Attorney General and stated "Senator Sessions has a long record of public service with no racist criticism until now." Oh really? then what was the reason in 1986 when President Reagan tried to get Sessions appointed to the federal bench but failed? Even his own Republican colleagues felt his record of making racist comments was too much even for them to support. Sessions has stated that the only issue he has with the KKK is that they smoke pot. Apparently, all that racist stuff the KKK stands for does not bother Sessions. Sessions has a record of indifference on civil and human rights issues. For a list of his voting record on these issue see http://www.ontheissues.org/Senate/Jeff_Sessions.htm. To question Sessions beliefs and his views on justice is a very appropriate for a person who is supposed to represent all Americans as Attorney General. Who knows if Trump is or is not a racist? I don't think Trump really knows himself. His opinions can change minute to minute. Trump does not have core beliefs. He just says what he says without thought or conviction and the masses eat it up. To try to understand who Trump really is, a person is limited to who he is surrounding himself with. Steve Bannon as a close advisor? Steve Bannon from the "alt-right"� Breitbart News, who has made some interesting statements over time. Like; "Fear is a good thing. Fear is going to lead you to take action." "I am a Leninist. Lenin wanted to destroy the state, and that is my goal too."� "I want to bring everything crashing down and destroy all of today's establishment." Remember Lenin was a communist. There is an exhaustive list of quotes you can find if you do some research. Before Thanksgiving the "alt-right"� racist leader Richard Spencer told a group of Nazi saluting supporters that "America was, until the last generation, a white country designed for ourselves and our prosperity, it is our creation and our own inheritance and it belongs to us." He finished by priming the audience with Hail Trump which the group obediently gave the Nazi salute while repeating Hail or Heil Trump. After getting push- back, Trump states that he did not court and encourage their support but the campaign rhetoric proves otherwise. Trump's incendiary remarks on the campaign saying racist, misogynist, intolerant things has attracted not only the KKK, neo-Nazis, and "alt right"� but has made it acceptable to say anything deplorable thing in the name of not being politically correct. Does it not bother John that Trump seems to be enamored with Putin? Wants to be BFFs. It is reported that Trump is too busy writing insane twitter rants that he does not have time to get security briefings. Trump seems to believe that it is acceptable to run his business out of the White House, co-mingling his profit interests with the government. (I can imagine the uproar from John if the Clinton Foundation was running out of the White House.) Trump played the American public who thought that he is our country's savior. He is already backing away from his more strident campaign promises because those promises weren't made to be kept. He just said anything that came to his mouth that would appeal to his supporters. The more outrageous he got the more support he received. What is going to happen to all those ardent supporters who thought he really was going to do all that he said but can't deliver? What gets Democrats the most is that anytime Trump opens his mouth he lies and is proved over and over again that he lies, but Hillary Clinton was portrayed as the liar and untrustworthy. John, you have written that critical thinking is something that is missing in our political discourse. What does it say about Trump's supporters who bought into this con-man, no questions asked? Republicans, you have him, you have the US Congress, you have our Governor and State Legislature. Republicans must take ownership of what happens, good or bad. Republicans can't blame Democrats for the results. It will be interesting to see how they lead. I just hope we survive it all.