President Trump called one of the recent mass murderers “a coward.” True to form, this is just his latest example of him being the pot calling the kettle black, because Trump himself is the ultimate coward.
Why? Because first he incites his white nationalist hordes to violence against Americans of other skin colors and gender identities and then, when they act at his behest, he condemns them. How can these people do this? he asks. They must be mentally ill, he says. He then proposes some milquetoast remedies (which he never follows through on) and then he goes back to inciting.
But he’s far from the only coward in the crowd. Every Republican NRA lackey in Congress — including our esteemed defenders of the Second Amendment Mitt Romney, Mike Lee, Chris Stewart, Rob Bishop, and John Curtis — who does not stand up and call Trump out for the coward he is are just as complicit in this ongoing crime against humanity.
Seven thousand Americans have been killed, combined, in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Every year, 30,000 Americans die on our own soil from gun violence. Our war is here at home, and we’re losing it.
Now is the time to tell your members of Congress we find their cowardice sickening.
Gerald Elias, Salt Lake City
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