LETTER: Trump is threat to establishment

What irritates the establishment about Donald Trump is that he can’t be controlled. There are no handles, and there is no amount of money to persuade. The full weight of the American economy, should it fall into his hand, as president terrifies the unseen Machine... and it should.

It happened once before concerning Castro, and the Cuban Missile Crisis. Kennedy, of course, died by assassination, and that murder still remains a mystery despite an unbelievable investigation done 50 years ago by the Warren Commission and J. Edgar Hoover — who personally hated Kennedy.

After his failed Bay of Pigs invasion, Kennedy stated, “If any missile is fired by Fidel Castro into the United States, we will consider it a formal attack by the Soviet Union, and we will retaliate in kind with nuclear weapons...” That statement was broadcast on public TV by Kennedy, who became an overnight sensation at the expense of the Soviet Union. Most of my 10-year-old friends spent months practicing nuclear war defense by sticking their heads beneath classroom chairs, shortly after.

Kennedy was soon shot, and five months later Nikita Khrushchev was gently escorted out of the Kremlin by the KGB, for no explicable reason or crime, yet remained free. It seemed to be a miracle, considering World War Three was averted. No journalist and no historian has ever assumed that both leaders were mutually removed for the benefit of the other 4 billion people living on the planet.

War is not to be treated lightly nor by “narcissistic” individuals. Any maverick who slips into the White House without controls can cause economic destruction, or even worse. When a president refuses to cooperate, then the world itself is placed into harm’s way.

Donald Trump is seen as uncooperative and uncontrollable. Therefore he alarms the establishment. The faint chance that Trump should become president, would again place their world in danger, as John Kennedy discovered in 1963. —Mike Donohue, Kalispell