LETTER: A surprise vote for Trump

I am sitting at my computer, listening to my playlist of patriotic music. Marilyn Horne has just finished bringing tears to my eyes with her operatic rendition of “God Bless America” as I gaze out my window at my flag of the United States of America flying proudly in front of my house.

But I am distracted by the news stories and pictures of the protesters at the Trump rally outside of San Francisco. I see a large number of Latinos who have been given sanctuary in that pus pocket of liberalism, once a proud and beautiful city. I see violence with riot police. I see an American flag, as beautiful as the one flying in front of my house being stomped on and set on fire by these ungrateful criminals who have broken our immigration laws to come here and gain access to the freedom to act in a manner that would result in prison or worse in most countries including the one they have escaped.

I see a little boy carrying a handwritten sign, “Make America Mexico Again,” marching in front of a Mexican flag with a horde of like-minded illegals behind him. I wonder what would have happened if some legal citizens had similarly ignited a Mexican flag and carried a sign saying, “Go Back to Mexico Where You Belong”? Would they be prosecuted for a hate crime by this administration’s “independent” Justice Department? I wonder!

I didn’t believe months ago I would say this, but I now plan to vote for Donald Trump. I know he’s not a real conservative, but maybe — just maybe — he will actually execute some fraction of the tough talk he has used to advance his campaign thus far. If he builds a wall (I don’t care who pays for it), enforces it 100 percent, and manages to get our broken bureaucracy to ship out at least a few million of the illegals who are either criminals or living off of taxpayer largesse, it will be a vote well spent.

—P. David Myerowitz, Columbia Falls