Letter to the editor: Hope for a better tomorrow with Trump

Although I am cautiously hopeful for our country during this holiday season, it’s hard to fully embrace an optimistic outlook when I consider the possibly irreversible damage done during our current presidential administration.

A bungled, shameful Afghanistan pullout. A Chinese spy balloon permitted to fly the entire breadth of our country, possibly collecting critical intelligence. Inflation that has raised the cost of living by nearly 25%. Biological males playing in female sports and using female locker rooms. An obviously cognitively compromised president being shielded by his party and the leftist media until his mental decline could no longer be denied. Demeaning and denigrating police, while denying increases in violent crime. And, perhaps, the most destructive presidential policy ever: executive orders permitting more illegal immigrants into the country than any previous administration, ever.

Result: Government resources overwhelmed. Billions of tax dollars handed to migrants. Millions of unvetted migrants, many with criminal backgrounds, allowed into the country. At least 300,000 missing migrant children. Record fentanyl deaths. Criminal gangs, like the Venezuelan Tren de Aragua, now terrorizing U.S. citizens inside our country.

Though I hope and pray that we can stop this madness, I know that nearly half the country voted to keep riding the cuckoo train. Many Democrats will continue to try and stop any meaningful course reversal that might bring back a semblance of sanity. The fight for America’s future never ends.

For now, I’m going to continue celebrating Christmas, believing that hope for a better tomorrow is here at last.

Richard Byers

Mt. Pleasant