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Re: Is liberal democracy in retreat? March 4 Christopher Hill column.

Christopher Hill suggests that President Donald Trump is threatening liberal democracy and has little respect for our system of checks and balances. Hill needs to check his data on who is doing the eroding.

President Trump is taking decisive action to reverse past presidential erosions by enforcing immigration laws, nominatingSupreme Court Justices who dont userelativistic interpretations, stopping the EPA from making laws, and overturning a federal health care law that is being forced on states and individuals.

Therefore, it is strange for Hill to say, alluding to Trump:Elections are not meant to transcend or overturn democratic institutions or the separation of powers.

Perhaps the worldwide retreat to which Hill has alluded has been caused by imposing liberal democracy on countries whose social structure is tribal allegiance (Iraq and Afghanistan), and the erosion of the rule of law in our own country.

Don Garretson, Conifer

Christopher Hills commentary clearly shows why Donald Trump won the election. His assertion that this bizarre presidency produces constant anxiety ignores the fact that the hysterical, outlandish refusal to accept defeat by the Democrats is what creates the anxiety. Protesters and mobs have tried to bring the government to a standstill, if not to its knees. Hill goes on to say that the president doesnt understand American democracy and its checks and balances.

Seems to me Trumpunderstands them very well. He has tried to correct actions by the previous administration using the same executive orders as it did. Having a cherry-picked judge impose a stay does not make an action wrong. Many of us are tired of these tactics and want to see courts that respect the Constitution, not progressivism.

People who make a living in politics lose their objectivity and a feel for the pulse of the nation, and Hill should spend time speaking to real people, instead of politicians and world leaders who see everything through the prism of government control.

Rick Roeder, Littleton

Christopher Hill seems content to denigrate President Donald Trump, arguably the worlds easiest target, rather than to ponder Trumps surprising rise. As many ordinary Americans know, our citadel of democracy functions little better than its Middle Eastern equivalent. The system has been gamed by the personal-wealth-seeking, bait-and-switch political class.

Heres the question Hill should ask: How did Trump do it? Hint: It wasnt the Russkies. Voters were given the choice between a kleptocrat who got rich while inpublic service and an unscrupulous business tycoon who got rich beforepublic service. Struggling wage earners, ignored except during political campaigns, desperately grasped onto a few populist phrases.

In 1517, when Martin Luther tacked his manifesto on the door of a German chapel, who knew it presaged the downfall of the greedy, monolithic European Church? With pundits like Hill unable to see the forest for the trees, Americans must wait for our Martin Luther.

Mary Marcus,Englewood

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