LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
President not acting like man he voted for
I voted in the last election but not for this individual. I supported him for the well-being of all America. However this person has consistently attacked our nation’s framework. His vitriolic attacks on most all ethnic groups are an embarrassment to all America.
It is imperative that Congress formally censure this man. Censure is merely a slap on the wrist for someone who may deserve more. It will serve as a permanent historical record for everyone to read in the future. It will show all what this country will not stand for!
We need to show the entire world what we are supposed to stand for. Censure will give us a bonus. We will know which elected officials are representatives of our country or just trying to be re-elected.
This man has no moral compass, is narcissistic and has no idea how to conduct himself. He also has little, if any knowledge of our Constitution. Are we really sure he is our president? Bill Culotta Old Lyme
Trump must serve more than his base
President Trump is having difficulty appearing sincere when he repudiates the White Nationalist movement. Is this, perhaps, because of personal sympathies with that sector of our population?
It might be appropriate, at this time, to remind Trump that as president of the United States, he serves all Americans not just Republicans or his “base.” No pun intended. Mary Wassung East Lyme
Do local GOP candidates share national agenda?
As you consider Republican candidates in local elections, it should be questioned whether these candidates endorse the national platform of bigotry, ignorance and hypocrisy. Republican Town Committees of Southeastern Connecticut hosted a campaign kickoff featuring keynote speaker Michelle Malkin, whose book endorses the reinstitution of internment camps for our Muslim citizens. Malkin also denies the science supporting climate change.
Do local voters trust leaders supported by a party that denies climate change, when the shoreline has the most to lose? Do our voters support leaders whose party denies the value of scientific investigation and seeks to deny health care for millions of Americans, particularly when some of our biggest employers are engaged in scientific research to cure disease?
In Old Lyme, our community has opened our hearts, our wallets and our attics to welcome two Syrian refugee families to our community. Are we going to embrace leaders who are beholden to a party that cannot bring itself to renounce white supremacy?
Before you decide that ugly national agendas are distinct from local races, ask your candidate the tough question. By accepting the support of your RTC, do you endorse the hatred, ignorance and hypocrisy of Michelle Malkin? Candace Fuchs Old Lyme
Trump destroys everything in his path
“Trump’s erstwhile supporters have much to account for” read the letter, “Standing by president, hell or high water,” (Aug. 22), where the writer accurately reminds us Trump won by American votes, not Russian votes. The “American votes” reminder has riveted the media since day one as no acceptable accounting can explain the Trump presidency phenomena of installing “a man whose ignorance, selfishness, egomania and abysmal character was so clear” (columnist Richard Cohen) with these self-evident truths only metastasizing daily.
The recently departed chief strategist, a.k.a. white supremacist, Steve Bannon, remarkably called the Charlottesville neo-Nazis “losers” and “a collection of clowns,” which wasn’t quite enough to keep his job. But it was enough to approach double-take whiplash astonishment seizing the moral high ground from Trump, which admittedly is a low bar. But if just the idea of Bannon winning the moral high ground is spine chilling, let me remind you it’s over the president to the United States. This black humor is more than hell, as Todd Snider sings in “Too Much to Think About.”
Trump has destroyed everything in his path with presidential compassion reserved for neo-Nazi “very fine people” and law-breaking “concentration camp” Sheriff Joe Arpaio (pardoned Aug. 26). Meet the U.S. president: Repulsive, vindictive, petty.
Pardon, I see you’ve already met. Jay Lustgarten Stonington