Letters: Voters conned into trusting con man

Many people can cite specific examples of why they think of Donald Trump as arrogant, bullying, childish, dangerous, egotistical, flip-flopping, greedy, hypocritical, ignorant, judgmental, knot-headed, lying, mean-spirited, nasty, obnoxious, phony, quarrelsome, racist, sexist, thin-skinned, unqualified, vain, womanizing, xenophobic, yammering and/or downright zany.

Many of us have a hard time understanding his wide appeal to Republicans. Nobody knows what Trump really stands for. He’s not a conservative or a liberal or a libertarian; he’s a Trumpist. His professed beliefs shift in response to his latest poll numbers. He seems immune to the flip-flopper label.

So if nobody but Trump knows what he really stands for behind the platitudes about a stronger America, it must be that his supporters trust who he is as a person.

They’ve been conned. The term “con” (now both a noun and a verb) comes from “confidence man” — someone skilled in winning trust for personal gain.

Donald Trump is a very skilled confidence man, who knows how to work a crowd. Like every con, he exudes boundless confidence and says, “Trust me.”