Jan. 12, 2026 Editor, The News-Gazette: Emboldening federal agents to shoot unarmed citizens in their cars doesn’t make America great.
Unconstitutionally invading another country, usurping its resources, and asserting the right to run it indefinitely doesn’t make America great.
Threatening to seize control of the autonomous territory of a NATO ally doesn’t make America great.
Allowing health insurance costs to balloon for millions of people doesn’t make America great.
Whitewashing history and changing facts to conform to a more convenient narrative doesn’t make America great.
Abandoning longstanding alliances with other nations which have successfully promoted and protected global stability, health, and peace doesn’t make America great.
Eliminating relief programs domestically and abroad at the cost of billions of dollars and hundreds of thousands of lives doesn’t make America great.
Extending tax cuts for billionaires and massively growing the federal deficit while millions of Americans worry about the daily cost of living doesn’t make America great.
Issuing blanket pardons to those convicted of assaulting police officers doesn’t make America great.
Denying the very existence of non-binary and transgender people doesn’t make America great.
Dismantling the arts, defunding scientific research, and disregarding the reality of climate change and its toll on human and ecological welfare doesn’t make America great.
Desecrating the White House to construct a gratuitously oversized and overpriced ballroom doesn’t make America great.
Engaging in repugnant, incendiary rhetoric; gaslighting the public; and calling for the execution of one’s political opponents don’t make America great.
Asserting that the only limit to one’s power is one’s own “morality” doesn’t make America great.
I don’t want to “make America great again.” Ijust want America to be better. PHILIP COULLING Lexington
