Letters: GOP leaders’ flip-flop on the Trump they used to hate, and RBG’s legacy
Quite a flip
We all know what a number of Republican politicians thought about candidate Donald Trump before the 2016 election. We heard terms such as “narcissist,” “pathological liar” and “con man.”
Now, we see before our eyes a total flip. We see GOP senators bowing to Trump’s wishes and being ardent supporters of his every whim.
The Republican Party has no platform and apparently no values either. What the party is about is what Trump is about — nothing more, nothing less. It is hard to watch.
I never believed that in this country it would be considered un-American to take responsibility for the physical well-being of one’s family, friends and fellow citizens. What about the next pandemic or virus, and how deadly will it be? Also, how will our children and grandchildren manage the apocalyptic scenario we are passing down to them because of our lack of action regarding climate change?
It seems that Republicans don’t like government, don’t see a role for it. If that’s the case, they should go home and leave the governing to those who place value on it and see the need for people to govern themselves: Don’t leave all the governing to the richest 1% in the world.
- Ronald A. Szymankowski, Overland Park
An embodiment
Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg: This is what American justice looks like.
- Richard Schaffer, Independence