Denying reality, foes of President-elect Donald Trump have demonstrated a derangement syndrome. (See most university professors’ writings in this newspaper.) It appears as if those persons are tripping on the developmental steps toward maturity. Will there be a peaceful inauguration?

We conservatives and our helpers have elected a hugely flawed and potentially dangerous man, by design. I move mirrors into a leftist paradigm to reflect that you have made a reluctant enemy of me and mine. I am a locust.

Your media friends laughed gleefully whilst my red, white and blue ox was being gored. Now the herd with the National Socialist brand is being led to the hamburger plant, which is located in the temple that you have recently abandoned. I feel that a politically correct culture has stolen from me the basic freedom to express the content and meaning of alternative ideas. That theft has created a serious grievance, now tribal.

Beware the locust.

Bob Bertrand

Old Orchard Beach