This was not an ordinary election. This time evil triumphed over good, ignorance over intelligence and perhaps dictatorship over democracy.

Friends of mine were crying, even physically ill on the day after. Former President Donald Trump will load the government with “loyalists” instead of independent professionals who are loyal to America.

He will ignore advice from experts and interfere where he has no knowledge. Our allies are incredulous.

Could it be that the average American is becoming less intelligent, less educated over time to vote for such a grotesquely twisted excuse for a human being? Like the savage mob on Jan. 6? This time Trump voters are going to have to take ownership of what they have done.

Racist, sexual abuser, felon, liar, scammer, pusher of hate and fear, divider of a nation, how are all of these Trump qualities processed and dismissed in the minds of his voters?

DAVID FITCH

Astoria