Donald Trump's Attack on the Government

This is the text of a letter I just sent to my local newspaper. 

It is clear that Donald Trump has something specific in mind with his parade of reprehensible, utterly unqualified people whom he has nominated for important positions in his administration. He has nominated vaccine denier Robert Kennedy, Jr., to be Secretary of the Health and Human Services. He has nominated serial liar and conspiracy theorist Kash Patel to be director of the FBI. The list of Trump's nominations of despicable, unqualified men and women for positions of power in our federal government just goes on and on. We have to ask why Trump insists on nominating so many utterly unqualified people to important positions in the government. It seems there can be only one explanation. Donald Trump is an American fascist, and fascist leaders, when in a position to do so, typically set about destroying their government's traditional institutions of power because they want to be in complete control of all aspects of their state. Trump clearly has set out to destroy the proper functioning on a broad range of American governmental institutions and to destroy Americans' trust in those institutions. Will he succeed? Only time will tell, but today we live under the frightful possibility that he will. We must all urge our United States Senators to vote against most of Trump's nominees. We must do what we can to make it clear that the American people will not stand for what Trump is trying to do. Perhaps we can't stop Trump, but we can at least make it clear to history that a great many of us opposed Trump and what he was up to as president.