Donald Trump has tapped into conservative values in the US - Yorkshire Post Letters

Christa Ackroyd, if I am correct, after the 2024 US election mentioned her disinterest in it, a far away country where she has no vote. Now she and Daxa Patel tell us how delighted they are that King Charles 'gave it' to Donald Trump in a British way.

What do they hope to achieve, Trump concessions on trade and tariffs? Donald Trump is by any measure an American nationalist, that was clear from the start of his 2016 election campaign, focusing on illegal immigration and how Europeans in NATO, Canada too, were not spending enough on defence and security. He made this point bluntly and without any holding back to the then German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Defence Minister Ursula von der Leyen.

Merkel 'got the message' as she says in her book, that she hoped Hilary Clinton and Kamala Harris would defeat him in the 2016 and 2024 elections. Von der Leyen too heeded him.

Donald Trump has been so fortunate, in his first term he got three conservative judges appointed to the US Supreme Court, Neil Gorsuch, Brett Cavanagh and 'ACB' Amy Coney Barrett, thus giving it a conservative 6-3 majority, with wide consequences. Some presidents have had no vacancies on the Supreme Court to fill.

In 2024 Donald Trump came so close to being assassinated, imagine the delight in the 'liberal media’ if he had been slain.

Daxa Patel says that the rifts between the US and UK and Europe will heal after President Trump leaves office in January 2029, I imagine that Christa Ackroyd would agree. I would not concur.

Donald Trump has left a situation that the 48th president coming after him will have to pay much heed to, even if he/she is a Democratic party one. Trump has appealed to the MAGA voters, voiced their concerns and social views, conservative and linked with religious tenets.

Away from the east and west coast, the US is a conservative nation. Trump has also made Europeans wonder if after him will at some time a Mark II Republican Trump become president, maybe in 2032.

I mention the US Supreme Court and conservative beliefs, the abortion question has come up again and Roe v Wade quoted, the majority have certainly pulled back on this, and incidentally of the nine judges, six are Roman Catholics.

Like in the US there are many voters here with conservative social values, I am one, I favour the death penalty for child murderers, and hold that marriage is a natural union between a man and woman.

I could never consider voting for the Greens, Lib Dems, or any of the 'Corbynite' far-left Labour MPs.