I must write on the continued letter craziness of some here, in particular those addressing President Donald Trump and Republicans. Two letters stood out in the July 12 issue: “The new GOP,” by Sean Mac Aodha and “Supreme Court nomination,” by Kim Pendleton.
On “The new GOP,” I can’t stop chuckling long enough to know if Sean is serious. The diatribe is lockstep with the “tolerant” liberals of today. Sean uses terms to describe Trump (and by proxy us) including “angry, racist … and utterly vicious to its political enemies.” These words are always thrown out, yet liberals can never point to one thing to back up their arguments. They’ll say “racist” because Trump wants to block people from six of the over 50 Muslim countries in the world from coming here. So Trump is only “racist” to 1/10th of Muslims?
Sean declares “angry,” no doubt on issues like illegal immigration, because Trump wants to vet people entering our country. Wow, another novel concept also proposed by Clinton and Obama and Bush. As to being “vicious to political enemies”–are you new to politics? Obama did this for eight years; see also other political figures. Facts are–it was Trump supporters who got attacked by left-wing goons during the election; it’s Trump supporters who continued to be attacked by lunatics on the left; it’s racist Democrats who excoriate minorities who have come to the Republican party. It’s the Dems who are acting to shut down free speech and expression with help from the fascists at Antifa; see riots at Berkeley and elsewhere. And let’s not forget our favorite windbag, Maxine Waters, a Dem who encouraged her followers to attack those on the right. Sean needs to turn off MSNBC, CNN, NBC, ABC, and other windbags on TV (no longer recognized as journalists).
On “Supreme Court Nomination,” Kim makes the faulty argument for Merrick Garland by stating: “Garland would be a superior nominee,” and, “let’s promote this nominee that was never dealt with before we consider any nominee that President Trump advances.” So he’s only “superior” because the liberals like him? And Garland’s nomination was stopped by both parties. Kim, sorry to tell you, but Trump won. So remember–”To the victors go the spoils!” And we can all be thankful that Hillary is not making these decisions.
This article appears in Jul 26 – Aug 2, 2018.