MARILYN GOLDFARB

Boalsburg

President Trump repeatedly declares, “Republicans will always protect patients with pre-existing conditions… You’ve been hearing it from me for a long time.” He’s actually said that 28 times. And yet right now, Trump lawyers are actively supporting a lawsuit in Texas, that’s headed to the Supreme Court, which would dismantle the ACA and its pre-existing condition protection.

These kinds of deceptions are the tactics used by Hitler’s Minister of Propaganda, Joseph Goebbels, who said, “If you repeat a lie often enough, it becomes accepted as truth.”

As of 1/20/20, Trump has told 16,241 documented lies, and displays many more characteristics of a fascist, including villainizing those who are different, using his “enemies” as unifying scapegoats, protecting corporate wrong-doing, extolling the “virtues” of other countries’ dictators, suppressing organized labor, hijacking the rule of law and rampant cronyism. These are deeds and actions from the fascist’s playbook.

For those who support Trump because he “tells it like it is,” it should be clear that he doesn’t.

For those who support him because of the stock market’s performance, think about your grandchildren who might live without democracy, who may be denied health care, who will be unfairly burdened by a ballooning federal deficit created by Trump’s tax cuts that made the rich richer while failing American families. They might also be choking on the toxic air resulting from his indiscriminate rollback of 50 years of environmental protections.

Please don’t let Trump manipulate you into tunnel vision.