To the Editor: With two weeks to go before the November election, it seems as if everything that can be said about Donald Trump has already been detailed. Probably voters for both Trump and Harris have a box of quarantined negatives — policies, rhetoric, actions of their candidate they find troubling — but in the box they will remain, outweighed by the reasons to support their favored candidate. For me, several of Trump's negatives dominate all other issues. (1) His betrayal of our Constitutional system with his refusal to accept the 2020 election results ... simply, he is a traitor. (2) His all-too-clear plans to use his second presidency to seek revenge against his enemies and foment chaos in government and in the streets. (3) The hatred, distrust, and bigotry he has infused — purposefully — into our civic society and culture.

Nostalgia can distort, but it does seem that our country has managed to take baby steps forward without splitting apart by accepting a “live and let live” approach, even as we struggle with our divisions. Trump has upended that bargain and set us on a different course. Strident voices of hate, resentment, and violence in different forms threaten our future. MAGA suggests a violent cleansing is badly needed.

Is this what the country wants? I hope not. I hope that voters, having seen Trump’s first four years and hearing his promises for the next four, will say, No, we don’t want and can’t bear a return to THAT.

Kamala Harris has shown herself to be a candidate the country can live with. As in 1980, when at the end voters decided Ronald Reagan was acceptable and ejected the Carter they knew, I hope the electorate will make a collective decision to certify Harris as the next President and give Trump a sendoff to his trials.

Tom Denton

New Paltz