I’m writing in response to Mike Ulen’s recent letter in the News- Herald where he decries the federal government sending troops to help quash the recent violence, looting, shootings, and arson occurring nightly in Democrat controlled cities (including our own Minneapolis). While we are all aware that, if there is a moderate position to take, Mike will generally take the opposite, in this case I sort-of agree.
While I think that Trump is trying his best to live up to his oath of office (protecting the life, liberty and property of his fellow Americans), in this case I’m with Mike: President Trump, please stand down. While I have no fear that we’re in the midst of Mike’s fever dream of “a fascistic and authoritarian” dictatorship, I still want Trump to let it go.
We live in a Democratic Republic where the people choose their own form of government. If the people of New York, Chicago, Portland, Seattle, Minneapolis and the rest of these “Progressive Utopias” are happy with their liberal Governors’ leadership, I say let them live with their choices. Let them all burn. As H.L. Mencken said: “Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.”
Daryl Popkes,
Gunflint Trail
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