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To the Editor:

I am writing this letter, unburdened by what has been, not connected with any local political parties. I am an Unaffiliated voter and have been with Trump in spirit since day one down the escalator at Trump Tower in June 2015. I was one of the lucky 21,000 to get tickets to the Trump rally at MSG on Oct. 27, 2024. It was the political event of my life. The past three weeks have been three of the greatest weeks in my life witnessing the transformation of this country that I felt was badly needed.

From learning about the 600 person rally last Saturday and just observing and hearing things around town, I acknowledge that my fellow town residents are becoming very upset about the Trump 47 administration. West Hartford, on the whole, represents an increasingly fringe viewpoint when compared to the national political consensus. In my opinion, some people are becoming unhinged and losing their marbles. The term TDS (Trump Derangement Syndrome) is tossed around from our side and I mean this with no disrespect, I think it is real. While this is not a clinical diagnosis from me – believe it is a form of obsessive compulsive disorder. I am saying this as someone who suffers from OCD myself. From 2009 to 2013, I suffered from a bad case of ODS (Obama derangement syndrome). It got so bad, that I closed my business for a time, kicked a lot of people out of my life and then went back to school and earned an ill-advised Master’s Degree through which I racked up a lot of student loan debt.  If it hadn’t been for a student loan discharge program and being misled by a for-profit college, I would be in financial ruin today. I nearly destroyed myself financially due to my political obsessions. I do not want that to happen to anyone else.

I do feel that the anti-Trump forces need to take steps in our direction to mend fences and at least have dialogue. I am not trying to make anyone like or support Trump. I just want us to get back to being neighbors and civil citizens. I serve clients through my business that are about 80% Democrat/liberal. We get along just fine and I help everyone equally. I am going to leave the transgender issue out of the mix right now, but here is where I think the Democrats have some work to do ….

1. 1. I hope we can all agree that there is wasteful government spending that needs to be curtailed. There is waste in everything from foreign aid, domestic disaster relief, and even defense spending.  The fact that Trump and Musk are exposing it should not be an excuse to lose one’s mind.
   2. THIS IS THE BIG ONE FOR ME – The other side needs to acknowledge that their presentation of and response to COVID-19 was an overreach. Democrats and counter cultural liberals used to be the side of vaccine skepticism. The tables have turned. Mask mandates, vaccine mandates, lockdowns and general scorn for people who did not agree with “the science” were flat out abusive. The failure to acknowledge vaccine side effects  and even entertain the mere concept that the MRNA vaccines may not be appropriate for people under 30 or at least under 18 and that there may (just a thought) have been and still are effective alternative therapies – which all had to be denied in order for emergency use authorization – is why we are where we are today. The “militaristic,” drastic, seemingly revolutionary tactics of this administration are a direct response of what you did to us  and how you “tortured” us during the COVID-19 Era.

If you cannot take steps to build bridges with us especially concerning your behavior on point No. 2, we are going to put the pedal to the floor on you. With that said, I am open to dialogue with anyone from the other side and also to share what I went through from 2021-2023.

Kevin Boudreau
West Hartford, CT