As a former Republican Party precinct chairman, I chose to voice my strong opposition to Donald Trump in the early part of his first term as our president. I proudly posted a “Dump Trump” sign in my front yard for two years. Rep. Liz Cheney and her late father (former Vice President Dick Cheney) also defied the backlash of fellow Republicans by denouncing Trump as a threat to our country and our democracy, as did the four courageous women of the Trump administrative staff who testified before the January 6 committee.
It is shameful that only one other Republican representative (Adam Kinzinger) had the fortitude to be a member of the committee. Most recently we have seen that Rep. Marjorie Taylor Green has been willing to oppose Donald Trump on some volatile issues — consequently incurring his infantile wrath, whereupon he referred to her as a “traitor.”
Look in the mirror, President Trump, for you are the real traitor to this country and its people who were gullible enough to believe your 30,000 lies that you have told over the last decade. Seventy five years ago our country was dragged through a similar nightmare by Sen. Joseph McCarthy and his conflicted attorney Roy Cohn (who represented Donald Trump’s father and taught our current president the art of suing his enemies into submission).
It was not until Sen. Joseph Welch challenged Sen. McCarthy in a Senate hearing by saying, “Have you no sense of decency, sir, at long last? Have you left no sense of decency?” 89% of Republicans still support Donald Trump — but why? What our country needs is another McCarthy-moment day of reckoning.
Noall Latimer, Millcreek
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