Winston Churchill famously said, “If Hitler invaded hell, I would make the devil at least a favorable reference in the House of Commons.” In like manner, I must applaud Gov. Gary Herbert for his op-ed concerning Hanukkah in the Tribune.
Gov. Herbert has many shortcomings, but at least he had the courage to use the occasion of Hanukkah to speak out for inclusiveness, diversity, humanistic and spiritual values, and speak out against the wave of bigotry, exclusiveness and white supremacy sweeping the country like a malignancy, aided and abetted by Donald Trump.
Herbert stopped short of naming Trump, and mentioned by name only Steve Bannon — the latter perhaps only because of Bannon’s attack against Mormons, but nonetheless, the commentary reasserts true American values a lot more forthrightly than we are hearing from most Republican politicians.
Good job, governor.
Michael A. Kalm, M.D., Millcreek