Ego, not 'swamp critters,' is Trump's big problem

As one of the majority of Americans who did not vote for Donald Trump for president, I am offended by Mark Agather’s characterization in the Daily Inter Lake of people like me as “swamp critters” and “spoiled children” who have refused to shut up and go away after the election.

We are concerned about Mr. Trump’s ego, his impulsive personality, and his lack of qualifications for the enormous task of being the leader of the free world. We are frightened by his unpredictable changes of policy from one day to another. And so are others, including some of his own party. Some examples:

Jonah Goldberg in National Review.com says, “His presidency doesn’t suffer from a failure of ideas, but a failure of character.”

Charles Krauthammer in The Washington Post, citing the “Rube Goldberg wreckage” of the health-care plan, says the president may opt for a single-payer plan. Consider that the hastily cobbled-together Republican plan would actually have taken health care away from millions of people.

And even a writer in that bastion of conservatism, The Wall Street Journal, says moneymaking plainly has nothing to do with governing and expresses hope that reality “will soon humble so arrogant a man as our new president.” Don’t hold your breath.

Meanwhile, David Brooks, a conservative op-ed columnist in the New York Times, says he thinks “something is going to happen” that will bring down the Trump presidency.

If that happens, it will be because of some mistake by Mr. Trump, not by the “swamp critters,” who are, in fact, motivated primarily by love of country.

Adams is a resident of Kalispell.