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Letter: Trump reflects silent majority

By Tana Aichele, Ridgefield
Published: May 12, 2017, 6:00am

There are a number of folks who are ever submitting their bias and brutal letters published here. I, and a good many others, endure (silently) their bombastic accounts of how they feel about President Trump and anyone or anything associated with him.

Many, myself included, have discovered it’s an unpleasant experience to share a positive or balanced view of Trump or his politics here because you are met with hubristic assessments, insults, and labeled with some sort of terrible epithet. As a result there is not much balance here, in the media or public square, and those who have supercilious political views seeing no opposition will assume they have changed minds to their political bent.

Yet, there is a silent opposition out there who can see through the smoke being thrown up as means to distract the misrepresentations in every media storyline.

Our past election cycle revealed you might not see a letter or hear a response from your family, friends and neighbors who support this presidency but they do, and will vote, because that is their voice that is always heard and the only one that matters.

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