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Readers Write, the humanities, Minneapolis mayoral race, Temple Israel vandalism

Opinion editor’s note: Strib Voices publishes letters from readers online and in print each day. To contribute, click here. Anil B. Hurkadli makes clear that President Donald Trump is hurting education (“Getting schools ‘back to basics’ is more complicated than it sounds,” Strib Voices, Oct. 10). Maybe even more important, he reinforces the fact that Trump’s signature action is wrecking things — that’s what Trump does. As Hurkadli perfectly puts it, Trump uses a “slapdash approach” that doesn’t offer anything as a “substitute to replace what was destroyed.” Trump fired 90% of educational research-and-development staffers. Trump gutted public broadcasting. He butchered USAID. He silenced the Voice of America. He told parents it was OK not to get their kids vaccinated against diseases that could make them miserable or kill them. He wants to kill Obamacare — and he has nothing to replace it. His here-today-gone-tomorrow tariffs wreck the soybean market for U.S. farmers and his solution is to bail them out — by taxing us all. And that’s in addition to Trump’s incompetent, mean-spirited Defense, Justice and Homeland Security departments. And diplomatic appointments like Herschel Walker — yup, Herschel Walker, now representing the nation. Trump’s spokesperson Karoline Leavitt recently said a Big Pharma leader, thanks to Trump, had promised to cut drug prices by 200 or 300%. That’s a mathematical impossibility — you can’t cut the price by more than the price. That’s typical of what we get from Trump: nonsense, nothing believable to say about how he’ll replace what he’s wrecked. Failure to resist Trump’s dangerous, foolish nonsense will doom this nation. Steve Schild, Falcon Heights

Opinion editor’s note: Strib Voices publishes letters from readers online and in print each day. To contribute, click here.

Anil B. Hurkadli makes clear that President Donald Trump is hurting education (“Getting schools ‘back to basics’ is more complicated than it sounds,” Strib Voices, Oct. 10). Maybe even more important, he reinforces the fact that Trump’s signature action is wrecking things — that’s what Trump does.

As Hurkadli perfectly puts it, Trump uses a “slapdash approach” that doesn’t offer anything as a “substitute to replace what was destroyed.” Trump fired 90% of educational research-and-development staffers. Trump gutted public broadcasting. He butchered USAID. He silenced the Voice of America. He told parents it was OK not to get their kids vaccinated against diseases that could make them miserable or kill them. He wants to kill Obamacare — and he has nothing to replace it. His here-today-gone-tomorrow tariffs wreck the soybean market for U.S. farmers and his solution is to bail them out — by taxing us all.

And that’s in addition to Trump’s incompetent, mean-spirited Defense, Justice and Homeland Security departments. And diplomatic appointments like Herschel Walker — yup, Herschel Walker, now representing the nation.

Trump’s spokesperson Karoline Leavitt recently said a Big Pharma leader, thanks to Trump, had promised to cut drug prices by 200 or 300%. That’s a mathematical impossibility — you can’t cut the price by more than the price. That’s typical of what we get from Trump: nonsense, nothing believable to say about how he’ll replace what he’s wrecked.

Failure to resist Trump’s dangerous, foolish nonsense will doom this nation.

Steve Schild, Falcon Heights