Letter: Reader fears Trump administration

I am mourning. I watched President Barack Obama gain stature over the course of his 8-year presidency. I saw him as a man I could trust, who was cerebral, yet also was decisive and, when necessary, forceful. I took comfort in having a man who was knowledgeable and thoughtful in the Oval Office. He did his best for the people of this nation, even though he was unjustly reviled by many Americans. He deserved better than the treatment he received from his enemies.

I fear what the next four years will bring. The president-elect's victory empowered too many of his supporters to openly express their hate, including the anonymous, racist coward who left a hateful message taped to the door of Amar Samel's home in Iowa City. Teens at one school chanted 'build the wall” to harass their Latino classmates.

The vice president-elect would make legal invidious discrimination against LGBTQ people. He boasted he is 'Christian, conservative, and Republican, in that order.” Since I and many Americans are none of the three, does that mean we are nobodies to him?

Martin Luther King wrote, 'Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.” The president-elect and his acolytes threaten my freedom, too, which was diminished by his victory. As I look upon strangers when I'm out in public, I no longer have any trust. I fear for my own safety, and dread what the president-elect will do to this country. He will never be my president.

Jeff Klinzman

Coralville