Letters to the Editor: Happy new year? Not in 2024. Let’s hope a Trump defeat makes 2025 worth celebrating

A campaign rally last month in Waterloo-Iowa, features Trump-inspired holiday decorations are seen at a campaign rally for the former president in Waterloo, Iowa, on Dec. 19. To the editor: If, God forbid, the former divider in chief is elected in 2024, we cannot say, “There’s enough blame to go around.” The blame will be squarely on those whom Erin Auby Kaplan describes in her spot-on article, “Why I’m not wishing you happy holidays.” She writes, “Without the adoring crowds and Republican Party sycophants who follow their lead, turns back into what he is: a clownish, petty, whiny, utterly irrelevant fake celebrity.” Here’s to hoping that next December, she and all of us can say “happy holidays,” because enough people stepped back, paused and saw Trump for who he really is. This past weekend, I drove the route of the Rose Parade, my city’s annual tradition that brings local folks and people from all over the United States to view floats beautifully decorated by volunteers. If it weren’t for the incredible doctors and nurses working hard to keep me alive, I would not be here to experience a brand new year. However, the electoral college lets losers win and entirely mocks the “one person, one vote” mantra we learned in grade school.