Tide of mainstream hysteria has failed to halt Trump’s progress

Roland Watson’s anti-Trump diatribe (Have Your Say, January 23) shows he is one American who New York Times columnists and the Trump-hating talking heads on CNN have succeeded in recruiting to their cause. Many other Americans, however, could see the media’s unsubstantiated denunciations of Trump for what they truly were, and went ahead and voted for him. 
The New York Times hated Trump so much that on the eve of the election, it predicted – no, guaranteed – a landslide victory for Hillary Clinton. After Trump’s victory, The New York Times published a mea culpa editorial, apologising for having misread the strength of the electorate’s support for Trump. But how could they have done so, if as reporters they are supposed to present the “facts” and the “truth”?
New York Times columnists and CNN personalities like Don Lemon continue to churn out opinions condescending of Trump, and urging that this “evil monster” be impeached before American democracy suffers more indignities. Roland Watson is nothing more than a mouthpiece for this same, by now tiresome, anti-Trump hatred. 
Watson’s allegation that Trump is a traitor and a Russian agent is absolutely laughable, given that Trump’s main messages during his campaign were to “make America great again”, to achieve a more equal trading relationship with China, and to secure the porous southern border. Under Trump, unemployment is at an all-time low, the scarcity of labour causing wages to rise, and America has for the first time become energy self-sufficient.
Watson warns there is a need “to address the massive challenges of this century”. If he includes among these “challenges” reining in China – its theft of intellectual property and aggression in the South China Sea – Trump is indeed addressing that; ditto, the denuclearisation of the Korean peninsula. And he has understood the futility of getting bogged down in conflicts in the Middle East. 
Roland Watson, Trump’s your man!
Edward Zile 
Rayong