Opinion: Liberal media, ‘King’ Obama and mainstream Democrats should have seen Trump coming

To the editor: Donald Trump will become the 45th president of the United States because the people rejected the mainstream media’s characterization of him.

He called out “illegal” immigrants, not people who come to this country through legal channels. He has never been a racist during his entire life; only in the eyes of a biased media was that charge ever given any weight.

Trump was pilloried endlessly by newspapers and pundits across the land — but the people were not swayed. If this election has proved one thing, it is that the mainstream media have lost their credibility.

Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton gave a very gracious concession speech and stated that Trump should be given a chance to succeed and asked her followers to keep an open mind. It would be nice to see this newspaper elicit the same generous sentiment.

Charles Reilly, Manhattan Beach

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To the editor: There was one huge issue that clearly contributed to Trump’s victory: President Obama acted as if he was “king” of America. Clinton was simply more Obama.

After the humiliating midterm election of 2014 in which Obama and his Democrats lost huge numbers of seats in the House and Senate — and sent a clear message that Americans didn’t like what the administration was doing — the “king” instead doubled down on his unpopular policies with executive orders and legal actions and arrogantly ignored Congress.

Obama, Clinton and their Democrats are out of touch with mainstream Americans, as this election clearly shows. It will be a pleasure watching Trump undo what the “king” and his Democrats should never have done in the first place.

Hopefully Trump will work with Congress and not emulate the misguided arrogance of “King” Obama.

Larry Hamlin, Dana Point

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To the editor: Trump’s victory has been decades in the making.

The Democrats abandoned their constituency of working people in favor of the professional class. A flawed establishment candidate took her traditional constituency for granted and ran such a lackluster and overly nuanced campaign that she outsmarted herself. Even the admirable efforts of Sen. Bernie Sanders were not sufficient to inspire enough voters to carry her over the finish line.

In January we will have a Republican president and a Republican Congress, and the promise of a Republican-inspired Supreme Court. One can hardly blame the progressive wing of the Democratic Party from saying, “I told you so.”

Ken Levy, Los Angeles

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