Full measure of man not reason to vote for Trump

I can understand how some uninformed, fearful, and yes, hateful voters could fall for narcissist lies and hate relentlessly served up by Donald Trump and still vote for him. Take for example, Daily Herald letter writer Charles Danyus, who excused Trump's utter debasement of our electoral process to galvanize voters, by saying it's not his prickly personality, but his courage and guts in truthtelling; likening Trump to the unfriendly guy they'd follow into combat. Danyus continues the war metaphor to claim our electorate was at war with the media, wealthy elite and political establishment; who he claims, caused their paychecks to shrink and their voices to be ignored. The solution according Danyus, was to vote for a wealthy elitist who shamelessly preached fear and loathing of the society to ensnare their vote. Elected on a fluke, losing the popular vote by 2.8 million, Trump immediately assembled a group of equally wealthy elitists determined to shrink Mr. Danyus' paycheck even further than he implies was reduced under Obama, those 14.3 million new jobs and a ceiling busting stock market notwithstanding. 

But what I can't understand is how Assistant Managing Editor Jim Slusher could read that nonsense and proclaim it one of the best letters of the year, calling it thoughtful. Two words that will never coincide except in the minds and the uninformed, the fearful, the haters, and yes, Daily Herald Assistant Managing Editor Jim Slusher, are Trump and thoughtful.