Dear Editor,

Everything is going to hell in a handbasket, a doctor my wife used to work for frequently observed.

Well, that’s an apt observation for Trump’s second administration.

CONSIDER INFLATION: The price for everything is way up from when Biden handed over the reins to Trump. Food prices are up over 15 percent, beer is up 20 percent. The price for school clothes is out of sight. Forget about buying a new car or even fixing the old car — you can’t afford it.

CONSIDER TARIFFS: Tariffs are fuel for inflation. Why in the world are we beating down a great ally like Canada?

CONSIDER PEACE: Putin made a fool out of Trump in Alaska. Just after Trump getting back to Washington, Putin unleashed his killing machine further against Ukraine. Where is Trump? The Russians have already murdered over 150,000 Ukrainians, tens of thousands were children. And I haven’t even mentioned the Prime Minister of Israel and the destroyer of GASA.

CONSIDER PUBLIC HEALTH: We no longer have the safety net of the NIH. Trump and his stooge RFK Jr. fired the NIH director, causing the entire top management to resign. Woe is us if COVID or some other infectious disease makes another pandemic for us to fight without NIH science and skilled doctors.

CONSIDER TROOPS IN OUR CITIES: Beware of Brown Shirts and Concentration Camps (Alligator Alcatraz). We don’t want a revival of the Third Reich in America.

I will never bend my knee to Trump and his failed second term. And neither should you!

Bill Bryant

St. Clairsville