The current administration appears to be launching the country into a constitutional crisis with no apparent regard for the opinions of citizens of the U.S. who are not billionaires. A new Wall Street Journal poll revealed two days before the inauguration that the majority of American voters were unhappy about the incoming president’s plans.

• More than 60% opposed Trump’s plan to replace nonpartisan civil servants with loyalists.

• More than 60% opposed Trump’s plan to eliminate the Department of Education.

• Almost 75% of voters opposed his plans for sweeping deportation raids, wanting only those with criminal records to be removed from the country.

• Only 46% approved of his choices for his cabinet.

• There was only 7% support for pardoning those convicted or accused of crimes on January 6th in a different survey ending on January 16th.

• More than two thirds opposed calls to take control of Greenland.

• Only 12%, in an Associated Press/NORC poll released on Jan. 24 thought the president relying on billionaires for policy advice is a good thing. Among Republicans, only 20% think it’s a good thing.

Perhaps it might have been a different outcome if more than 63.9% of us had voted. The choice for president, made by a minority, affects all of us and endangers our democracy.

Sally Roth

Bristol