The party of hate?

Dear editor:

I admit I have not read Larry Bauer’s submissions in some time. They pretty much all fall into the same category: Democrats are evil, the source of all that is wrong, and Republicans are good, and should take credit for everything good. It’s a small, myopic universe that Larry lives in, and his rhetoric is generally not worth reading (or printing, but this is America).

But when I read two letters rebutting a previous letter this Sunday, I had to go back and read the original Bauer submission. Without surprise, he blames Democrats for pretty much everything, without any real facts or substance.

So, like the other letter writers Sunday, I would pose a question for Larry: Just a couple of months ago, a journalist, Jamal Khashoggi, walked into the Saudi Arabian embassy in Turkey, and never left. Our own Trump Central Intelligence Agency has publicly confirmed he was murdered, with an advance plot, by 15 or more members of the Saudi intelligence and ruling establishment, and that the murder was likely planned in advance and ordered by the Saudi royal prince.

Here’s what our president, Donald Trump, has said since then:

“The crime against Khashoggi was a terrible one.” Agreed. But then, citing a pending arms deal with Saudi Arabia “This is a record amount of money. It will create hundreds of thousands of jobs (something even the arms companies dispute, citing between 500-1,000 created or saved jobs).”

Trump continues. “Of the $450 billion (again, a made-up number; sources say less than $100 billion, at the most), Boeing, Lockheed Martin, Raytheon, and many other U.S. defense contractors” could be hurt if we simply let the execution of a journalist get in the way of business.

“I don’t want to lose an order like that,” Trump said.

So, Mr. Bauer, there you have it. Murder someone, in cold blood. But money “Trumps” moral decency. Where is the party of hate? Personally, I don’t think Republicans have become the “party of hate,” but simply the party of cowardice. We used to be better than this.

At what point do you, and the other letter writers who continually defend him, have the decency and courage to simply admit that Donald Trump is a serial liar, egomaniac, and has zero integrity or moral decency? When does it end? Anthony Lloyd Hot Springs