 let's see richard wrote in and said not very long ago i expressed to a friend that the current way to the hate was going to turn our country into a banana republic obviously i was wrong because what happened saturday tells me that we are already a banana republic where some people believe a bullet should determine who has the right to sit in the white house while i know that donald trump with his over-the-top in your face new york confrontational attitudes seem to feed on making people hate him even though many of his policies were better for the country than anything that came out of the white house in almost four years