Letters

One thing that I’ve come to understand about American politics is that Democrats play to win differently than their Republican alternative.

Early on, I observed how they politicized our Supreme Court in their efforts to personally destroy Robert Bork, and then his Republican replacement, Clarence Thomas. This politicization of the formally apolitical selection of our SCOTUS members set in motion the use of the “nuclear option” by a Democrat Senate majority to clear approvals. This abuse of the minority by Democrats led to the composition of SCOTUS today.

Lesson learned? Hardly. The John McCain candidacy was initially highly regarded by The Times and media until he was nominated by his party and chose a women governor from Alaska to be his running mate. All hell descended on her for not being a Northeast intellectual.

Mitt Romney had his moment in the sun after trouncing the Dems’ poster boy, the unknown Barack Obama, in their first debate. Democrats then created a narrative built on the lie that Romney was a fat cat who didn’t pay taxes like the rest of us. Poor Mitt wouldn’t play hardball and lost a winnable election because he was a gentleman and not a shark.

This brings us to the present, where Republicans have the very candidate Democrats have created through the natural selection process of presidential politics. Donald Trump wasn’t raised as a country club Republican. He was raised as a real estate developer in a very competitive business. He does not respond as previous Republicans would and is arguably a political maverick, not an ideologue.

This initially confused Democrats who didn’t believe he could succeed in the political arena but quickly saw him as a serious threat and began planting the usual distortions and lies they hoped to destroy him with. They disseminated the lie that Trump was a Russian stooge. After his election, Democrat Adam Schiff of the Congressional Intelligence Committee swore he had proof this was true, and Nancy Pelosi ran with repeated impeachment efforts.

During Trump’s effort to get reelected, Hunter Biden, a middleman collecting millions for access to his father, let his laptop be abandoned and turned over to the FBI. This laptop had incriminating and embarrassing evidence of Biden malfeasance that was corroborated by Hunter Biden’s partners. If exposed, it likely would have cost Joe Biden the election. To the rescue: 51 members of the Democrat deep state suggested unequivocally it was Russian misinformation. A lie that couldn’t be exposed so close to the election. Yet in today’s Newsday, special prosecutor Jack Smith released unsealed court filings charging Trump with election crimes only 30 days from Election Day.

Democrats don’t play fair. They play to win.

Ed Surgan

Westhampton