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The Guardian - UK

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Letters

The man who’ll make America grate again

Donald Trump at a rally in Pennsylvania last month. ‘What will the angry white men do a few years from now when Hillary isn’t locked up, there isn’t a wall along the Mexican border, there aren’t millions of new jobs in steel, manufacturing, and coal mining, and globalisation continues unabated,’ asks David Smith. Photograph: Dominick Reuter/AFP/Getty Images

How did we get President-Elect Donald Trump? For years both political parties were busy making promises but had no intention of keeping them. It took a mob-mentality man to wake us up. I pray he listens to the voters who elected him and makes an all-out effort to deliver on his many promises.
Herb Stark
Mooresville, North Carolina

• What will the angry white men do a few years from now when Hillary isn’t locked up, there isn’t a wall along the Mexican border, there aren’t millions of new jobs in steel, manufacturing and coalmining, and globalisation continues unabated? That will be the time to worry.
David Smith
Manchester

• In all the angst and analysis that will inevitably attend Donald Trump’s victory, I hope the significance of the Democrats’ “superdelegates” decision, to override the popular vote for Bernie Sanders as presidential candidate (when he was leading both Clinton and Trump in the polls at the time) will not be overlooked. Labour, be warned!
Gillian Maher
Cuckfield, West Sussex

• You report that Bill Clinton disparagingly referred to Jeremy Corbyn as being selected as Labour leader because he was “the maddest person in the room” (Report, 9 November). I wonder if he would care to share his views on the decision just taken by his fellow citizens.
Alan Brown
York

• Donald Trump is already delivering on one of his main campaign promises – to make America grate again…
Michael Crapper
Whitchurch, Hampshire

• He shared their anger. Hillary didn’t.
John Grigg
London

• “We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed, / In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump.” (1 Corinthians 15:51-52).
Mark Holmström
Norwich

• “Insanity in individuals is something rare – but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule” – Friedrich Nietzsche.
Hugh Dower
Nottingham

• It was rigged.
W Stephen Gilbert
Corsham, Wiltshire

• Today’s quick crossword clue, 1 across: “Beyond words”. Prescient?
Victoria Smillie
Bawburgh, Norfolk

• Let’s look on the bright side. He can be got rid of in four years … unlike Brexit.
John Billard
Reading, Berkshire

• First Brexit, now Trump; this “western winter” – a democratic rebellion against the establishment – is not unlike the Arab spring. Will it also bring chaos, uncertainty and division?
Dr Robin Chung
London

• Recent events might lead reasonable people to consider the possibility that nastiness really does prevail – that centuries of religious and political theorising have made only cosmetic and relatively short-lived inroads into the innate unpleasantness of a significant percentage of mankind.
Mike Scott
Bath

• So Hillary Clinton has conceded and Donald Trump has won. He will be the commander-in-chief and have his finger on the nuke button. I have wrapped up all my Christmas presents and am distributing them now.
Barbara MacArthur
Cardiff

• Given the amazing record, bordering on clairvoyance, of its repeatedly lending support to losing candidates, may I beg the Guardian to continue to forecast that Jeremy Corbyn will never become prime minister?
Paul Hewitson
Berlin

• The world awoke as an unsafe place this morning. Can I remind all those who voted for Trump of Pastor Martin Niemoller’s poem: First They Came…
Shannon Turner
Radstock, Somerset

• Surely it’s time for Gary Trudeau to come out of semi-retirement and restore his daily Doonesbury strip. He will never have as much material for his usually perfect political commentary as is likely to be generated in the next four years.
Bernie Kingsley
London

• No one has yet mentioned that the outbreaks of idiocy on both sides of the Atlantic have been caused by capitalism. The rabid right sneer at the left for its politics of envy, but that’s nothing like so dangerous as the politics of greed.
Brooke Harvey
Dunmow, Essex

• Writing letters is not enough in days like these.
Keith Flett
London

• Note that on our calendar today is 911.
Laurie Baily
West Bridgford, Nottinghamshire

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