Opinion: Trump attacked women, Muslims, Latinos and countless other groups. Of course people are protesting

To the editor: Night One after the election, we went to sleep with helicopters buzzing overhead and sirens wailing. These are the sounds resulting from a piece of America that feels traumatized — or perhaps I should say “Trumpmatized.” (“Anti-Trump protesters swarm downtown L.A. for third night; graffiti and vandalism reported,” Nov. 11)

Does President-elect Donald Trump not realize that his messages of contempt — against women, against Muslims, against the physically disabled, against the victims of our drug use and political wars in the Americas — can only divide America? His call for Americans to come together rings hollow. He has enraged all who were really listening, and it is insulting to our intelligence to think his words can be forgotten.

America’s biggest growth industry will be in guns, jails and border patrols, people hired to go door to door to find and arrest our “illegal” neighbors; it will certainly not be in education and healthcare. No wonder so many of us are “Trumpmatized.”

Judith Markoff Hansen, Los Angeles

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To the editor: Liberals should not be protesting the outcome of the election. Trump won fair and square.

I didn’t vote for Trump or Clinton. I was a supporter of Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), Hillary Clinton’s opponent in the Democratic primary. Any anger the protesters have should be focused on the Democratic National Committee for its bias in favor of Clinton. Its system of superdelegates put forth, probably, the only candidate that could have lost to Trump.

I also find the protests by entertainers, sports figures and others to be a bit hypocritical. I can only imagine what they would be saying if Clinton had won and Trump supporters were marching in the streets.

Dave Thoma, Ventura

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To the editor: The people of the United States elected Barack Obama to two terms as president, but in a deeply cynical, raw, naked power grab, Senate Republicans denied the president his choice for Supreme Court, saying the people should decide. Because the GOP lost them, those two elections did not count as the people’s decisions.

This is not democracy.

Trump lost the popular vote to President Obama’s preferred candidate. If he sincerely wants to heal the country, he should press Senate Republicans to approve Obama’s Supreme Court nominee, Merrick Garland. That would be a bold and creative stroke that would go a long way toward enabling millions of Americans to, as Clinton said in her concession speech, allow him the benefit of an “open mind.”

But that would require a generosity not yet demonstrated by either Trump or the Senate Republicans.

Fury? They ain’t seen nothing yet.

Sarah Tamor, Santa Monica

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To the editor: Now we know who the real “deplorables” are.

The disrespect these protesters have for fellow citizens and their right to vote is palpable. And deplorable.

Jeffrey C. Briggs, Hollywood

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To the editor: Time to take a poll of the protesters: How many voted in the election?

H.F. Henson, Westlake Village

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To the editor: I would like to suggest to the protesters that they invite their favorite musicians, actors and sports stars to be part of free concerts or gatherings all around the country on Jan. 20 to remind the world that not all Americans favor what is happening in Washington on Inauguration Day.

Some will say that would disrespect our history. I would argue this election has called for some new rules.

William Bergmann, Hollywood

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