Letter to the Editor / DO THE RIGHT THING

By Roger C. Kostmayer

Where, you may have asked, are all the Republicans and their party that once was: a pillar of Constitutionalism, proudly internationalist, fiscally responsible, anti Russian & anti corruption, truthful, and believed in conserving American values that united the American people.

Examples of these leaders begin with the first and best Republican president, Honest Abe Lincoln, but there’s also a long distinguished line of diverse Republicans who served their country with honor and integrity, such as Ike, Nelson Rockefeller, Barry Goldwater, George H.W. Bush and John McCain.  Sadly, the Grand Old Party (GOP) morphed  into the Trump Party, and those American heroes who preceded today’s Congressional Republicans would no longer be welcomed into today’s Trump party by presidential sycophants and enablers.

In the past, Republicans did the right thing and put country first when it became unequivocally clear that a member of their party threatened America’s Constitutional democracy, in the Senator Joe McCarthy and President Richard Nixon cases, and we must hope that they have the courage and patriotism to rise to the occasion if the evidence confirms we face an even greater threat than the prior crises.

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