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I’m going to tell you right off the bat: the buffoon in the White House may be your president but … he isn’t mine. Why? Because he lost the election, then it was handed to him on a Rube Goldberg clause inserted into the Constitution for thwarting the majority; that’s not the way democracy works.

How often have we heard about the brilliance of the Founding Fathers? Here’s what they really did: they turned their backs to women; closed their eyes to slavery; and left the back door wide open for any loser to occupy the Oval Office — is that brilliance to you? More like chicanery to me. The Founding Fathers copped out, leaving the heavy lifting for others.

The Founding Fathers notwithstanding, Trump lost the election by some 3 million votes, understand? But, he was declared the winner. Where else in the universe does one lose an election but wins the spoils?

As a consequence, Trump cannot be a legitimate president of the USA; he is president of the GOP, the party of no, the darling of the rich and the military, not the USA. The USA is us, the majority disenfranchised by the Founding Fathers because they had to have a means to negate the vote by the riffraff should it favor a buffoon. Trouble is, their fancy scheme boomeranged, blew up in our faces, when the electors anointed the loser as the winner.

America really is exceptional … isn’t it? And two plus two equals five, too.

ROBERT WRIGHT

Sandpoint