Republicans out of time to reject Trump’s lies

Eugene Robinson says a GOP that retains Trump’s conspiratorial world view is not a political party but a dangerous cult.

Dear Editor (with apologies to Mr. Shakespeare),

Friends, Americans, countrymen, lend me your ears;

I come to bury Trump, not to praise him.

The tweets that men send live after them;

The good is oft interred with their bones;

So let it be with the Donald. The noble Schumer

Hath told you Trump was malicious:

If it were so, it was a grievous fault,

And grievously hath Trump answer’d it.

He hath brought peace to much of the Middle East,

Restored the military and brought soldiers home from foreign lands.

Did this in Trump seem malicious?

When poor minorities cried, he funded your colleges, supported your businesses, defended your unborn babies, and decreased your unemployment.

Was this racist?

Surely racism should be made of sterner stuff:

Yet the press says he was a racist;

And the press is fair and unbiased.

When he cut red tape to ease the burden on small businesses, when he defended your religious liberty and right of self-defense, when he negotiated fair trade deals and made you energy independent

Was this ambition?

Yet Pelosi says he was ambitious;

And, sure, she is an honourable woman.

I do not write to disprove what the Democrats spoke,

But here I am to speak what I do know.

You and he loved America once, not without cause:

What cause withholds you then, to mourn for her?

O judgment! thou art fled to brutish beasts,

And men have lost their reason.

And to your Gettysburg Address, I answer you, Mr. Lincoln,

As you rest within your coffin,

The answer is sadly, “No, no nation can long endure.”

The apple is once again eaten, and the serpent laughs. Jeffrey Mahoney Hyde Park, N.Y.