In their article “Evangelicals, Mormons and Trump’s Perfect Storm” (March 18), Robert Rees and Clifton Jolley have clearly articulated what many of us are thinking today, and that is: “There is among some citizens an “enthusiasm for ‘news’ that is exciting rather than true, for fiction over fact … an appetite for the vulgar.” In excusing Donald Trump’s lies, lack of commitment to people and issues, conflicts of interest, and no regard for ethics, to name just a few of his character flaws, the authors state that “what appears to be most treasured by conservative Christians who support Trump is not truth or morality, but power, the power of cultural politics.”
They have correctly pointed out that hypocrisy reigns supreme, even involving the majority of Republicans in Congress, who either sit quietly during the chaos in the White House, doing nothing, or heartily endorse all of the president’s interests expressed through his words and actions instead of the interests of justice.
These gentlemen have given us much to think about, especially of our individual responsibility to make our voices heard in the voting booth, come November.
Lolita Hagio, St. George
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