Tag: Profanity

However, I take issue with Mr. Bruni’s assertion that “anger isn’t a strategy.” Does Mr. Bruni feel the same about the anger expressed by the Marjory Stoneman Douglas high school students, the anger expressed by the women writing about their own #MeToo experiences or the anger currently being expressed through social media regarding Homeland Security’s separation of children from their parents? Being passive and calm does not always raise the same awareness and can sometimes show weakness and lack of commitment. Anger can bring needed change; profanity is rarely helpful. To the Editor: Frank Bruni may be right to blame incendiary celebrity rants for helping President Trump. But the reason that Democrats are currently out of power, despite being right on a majority of issues, is not too much fire but lack of it. For better or worse, what Donald Trump brought to voters was passion. If calculation and moderation couldn’t defeat him in 2016, why would we expect it to work now? They accomplish nothing except to embarrass themselves and push the self-righteous Trump supporters further into his corner. Let’s be rational in our opposition and bring the populace that is getting fed up to see the light. To the Editor: Frank Bruni argues that anger is not the appropriate strategy to use against President Trump.