April 10, 2023
Dear editor;
G.O.P. stalwarts made headlines crying, “Unfair treatment under the law!” in response to southern Manhattan’s D.A. Bragg’s announcement to indict the G.O.P.’s puppet-master.
Conservative commentator S.E. Cupp fired a well-aimed fusillade at Fox Network’s chief propagandists, Carlson, Hannity, et.al. blasting their supposed outrage: “They weren’t outraged by Trump’s attempt to overturn the election”, nor, and I am paraphrasing, were they outraged by the January 6, 2021 insurrection, nor by the illegal phone calls to Georgia secretary of state to steal votes, nor by the illegal plan to extort Ukraine president Zelinsky, nor were they outraged by multiple, credible, accusations, of sexual harassment and rape, nor by Trump’s homophobic, xenophobic, sexist, bigoted, rhetoric while continually coddling white supremacists, neo nazis, and Q-anon supporters. S.E. Cupp seems to feel outrage as promulgated by Fox Network is somewhat disingenuous and I must agree.
The first week in April saw major elections in Chicago and in Wisconsin, new revelations concerning justice Clarence Thomas, Margorie Taylor Greene’s being shouted down in N.Y.C., and Mike Pence and Stormy Daniels in a marvelous double entendre, both claiming, “I have nothing to hide”, and, oh yeah, Trump’s indictment.
However, I think the more interesting events occurred in the Tennessee State House where two duly-elected black congressmen were expelled, ostensibly for joining an ongoing protest by concerned, engaged, youthful, citizens demanding meaningful firearm reform legislation in a state that just days before witnessed a horrific mass-shooting at a private grade school.
These protests gained what appears to be a sympathetic national audience; there is talk of reinstating the congressmen at this writing.
The eloquence of all three legislators and the peaceful demonstrations of their constituency is, for me, an inspiration.
Dave Hoehne, Aurora