Like most Americans , I wanted to hear what our president would have to offer when speaking to Congress and most senior government officials, so I tuned in the night of March 4.

What I heard didn’t surprise me — direct, common sense and to the point on a wide range of issues concerning and affecting virtually all of us.

As expected, especially these days, there was immediate “pushback” from the left. What was not expected, was the severity and “over-the-top” nonsense of the response.

It’s one thing to express your disapproval by not standing, applauding and cheering our new president, and quite another to be foolishly — make that stupidly — disdainful of people who have suffered great loss and tragedy. The examples are many, as we saw, and the harm, to put it mildly, was caused by the previous administration’s ridiculous policies. Policies of the left.

How can the Democratic Party claim to love Americans when clearly, they don’t like Americans?

The party has got to do a leadership purge to remain relevant. Far-left progressivism is too close to socialist elitism to appeal to mainstream voters.

Moderate soon, or face the prospect of continually losing elections.

Larry Lamping, Kane