To the Editor:
Apparently, Donald Trump likes to be unpleasant which is an early sign of mental illness. Trump’s behavior begins to look a lot like the story about a crazy Spanish knight named Don Quixote. In the story of Don Quixote, the protagonist who consistently misinterprets his own, his adversaries’, and his allies’ actions and motives (like Trump) — regularly resulting in apparently unjustified violent actions and consequences. One way of interpreting Don (Trump) Quixote’s tilting at windmills could be as an allegory to promote critical, skeptical, or satirical evaluation of either a hero’s motives, rationales and actions, or a nation’s foreign policies.
The phrase “tilting at windmills” is sometimes used to describe confrontations where adversaries are incorrectly perceived, or courses of action that are based on misinterpreted or misapplied heroic, romantic, or idealistic justifications. It may also be used to connote an importune, unfounded, and vain effort against adversaries real or imagined for a vain goal.
So, my view of Republicans like Trump is similar to my view of Don Quixote. Just as Quixote misinterpreted the world, so, too, Donald Trump easily misinterprets the world today. Just as Quixote dashed off to fight those invisible foes, so, too, Donald Trump is ready to fight invisible foes.
In other words, Donald Trump’s behavior illustrates a mental illness that is common in literature around the world.
Maybe Hillary should go on TV and shout, “Lock him up. He’s insane. Lock him up!”
She would be correct.
Robert Wesolowski
Village of Polo Ridge
