I may not have the best memory, but I am old enough to recall a lot about American politics.
I remember the Republican Party’s cynical co-option of Christianity and the creation of the Moral Majority in the 1980s
I remember a Republican Party that impeached a Democratic President for lying about sex (a crime only when there’s a Democrat in the White House, apparently).
I remember 500,000-plus deaths resulting from the Republican Party’s blind rush to war in Iraq, against the best advice of US intelligence agencies.
I remember Republicans who refused to participate in the debate that ultimately established the Affordable Care Act; and I remember that they then promised to repeal and replace that law for seven long years before they were revealed to be the poseurs and liars that they are.
I remember nine biased, partisan hearings on Benghazi and that the Republican Senate refused to consider the appointment of a Supreme Court Justice by the lawfully elected (twice!) Democratic President. I remember it all.
The good news: the Republican Party is dead. The bad news: it has been replaced by the execrable Trumplican Party with the willing and eager complicity of our own Scott Tipton.
Although we can’t restore the war dead to life or correct the other myriad wrongs of the past, we can choose a more enlightened path for our future by removing Scott Tipton and the other Trumplicans from office this November. Remember: friends don’t let friends vote Trumplican.
Larry A. Bollinger
Durango
