Americans should not be nostalgic for Trump

DC Larson's guest column praising Donald Trump, published Oct. 13, is pure fiction, with such cringeworthy hyperbole as "wallets smiled" and "manufacturing jobs were safe" when Trump was president. (According to FactCheck.org, not all jobs were safe; there was a net loss of 188,000 manufacturing jobs at the end of his presidency. Oh, I forgot: Fact-checking is not a Republican thing.)

In his only attempt to back up his assertions, Larson blames shortages of food and other goods on the present administration, but the shortages came about during the COVID-19 crisis, which Trump bungled. (He did, however, reportedly manage to secretly send COVID testing equipment to Vladimir Putin, at a time when COVID testing was hard to come by in the U.S.)

This "inspirational candidate" degrades minorities, foments violence, and is intent on quashing dissent, which puts our rights of free speech in jeopardy. Americans should be worried about the future, not nostalgic for a sugarcoated past.

Rae Riebe

Cedar Rapids