Letters

Here’s the conclusion I’ve come to as an independent voter with regard to people who are coming out of the woodwork now saying they have to support Donald Trump because he’s better than Joe Biden, when they have been sitting quietly on their hands for the past three years knowing that they can’t defend the indefensible actions of Trump leading up to January 6, his actions and inactions on that day, and his relentless efforts to avoid accountability in the aftermath. Nor can they defend his continuing behavior. He has done nothing but undermine civility and confidence in the integrity of our institutions, as well as our standing in the world, with the most recent examples being his efforts to undermine bipartisan immigration reform legislation for political purposes, and his counterproductive comments with regards to Vladimir Putin and NATO.

What baffles me is how so many people who felt so bad and embarrassed on January 6 can do nothing to support Republican alternatives in these early stages of the primary season, where we are today with 45-plus primaries to go.

I would encourage Republicans to go back and sit through three to four hours of the live coverage of the events of January 6 on a network of your choosing and ask yourself if you really, really want to take a chance on that guy as your candidate, when all the polls are showing Nikki Haley has a much better chance of beating Biden, which you say is your primary objective.

Until you do, we really don’t want to hear that your issues are with Biden, when it’s really preference for a dangerous wannabe autocrat doing everything he can to avoid accountability.

Ron Schaefer

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