To the Editor:

Locally, and across the country, folks concerned that our duly elected president is a threat to our democracy, attended “No Kings” protests and marches freely [“On No Kings Day, Storey says, ‘We have to find strength through each other’,” The Altamont Enterprise, June 14, 2025].

Often compared to National Socialist (also known as “Nazi”) Hitler by his haters, our president took no actions to hinder or impede the protesters who compare him to Hitler. Hitler, of course, killed the White Rose protesters who opposed him.

What does the freedom, with which President Trump’s haters (who doesn’t hate Hitler?) protested, under our president say about the validity of their Hitler comparisons and their fears that they aren’t free?

Which specific freedoms do the protesters feel that they have lost? Can you recall when government suppressed the freedoms of speech and press, regarding Hunter Biden’s laptop?

President Trump won a majority of the popular votes cast across the country, and in sufficient states to win the electoral vote. This inconvenient truth vexes those unable to deal with it as adults. Recall the left’s “this is what democracy looks like” mantra, and apply it to President Trump II, too.

Edgar Tolmie

Altamont

Editor’s note: In the 2024 election, Trump garnered 49.81 percent of the popular vote, which was a plurality but not a majority. Former Twitter executives told the House Oversight and Accountability Committee in 2023 that, before the 2020 election, they had blocked users from sharing a controversial New York Post story about Hunter Biden’s laptop but they denied that they had acted in concert with government officials.