A few weeks ago, President Donald Trump was called upon to denounce Trump-supporting Nazi and KKK demonstrators for the violence they inflicted upon Charlottesville, Virginia.
After begrudgingly admitting these groups were foul, Trump opined that there were “very fine people” who marched with them. He then equated protesters who fight terrorists with the terrorists themselves: “There was violence on both sides,” he said.
I expected our local Republican leaders to publicly denounce this assertion.
They haven’t.
That’s bad, especially since the good people living here need to know if the local elected GOP are in agreement with Trump in believing that people who fight Nazis are as bad as Nazis.
So I thought I’d invite the La Plata County Republican executive committee to weigh in.
Jim Harper? Kyla Patterson? How about J. Paul Brown? Maybe he knows some of those “fine people” marching with the KKK?
Or perhaps La Plata Electric Association Board Chair Davin Montoya has an opinion about Trump’s moral equivalence of Nazis with anti-Nazis?
How about La Plata County Commissioner Brad Blake?
I’m sure local Republicans will find their voices and add them to Sen. Cory Gardner’s and Rep. Scott Tipton’s semi-sincere, toothless rejections of the president’s words. After all, they fought so passionately to elect him.
I wonder if they could have predicted this mess while enjoying a victory beer during their cleverly-named “Deploraball,” shortly after the inauguration.
After all, they doubtlessly hate the deplorable KKK and the deplorable Nazis as much as the rest of the county.
Right?
Travis Tibbs
Bayfield
