An open letter to my U.S. senator from Missouri, Roy Blunt:
Over recent days, a sitting president declared that a political opponent who has not been charged with a crime should be thrown into jail.
He also called for stopping the publication of an unflattering book about him.
Shockingly, this was not Russian President Vladimir Putin, but his most prominent American admirer and protégé.
Sen. Blunt, will you honor your oath of office to “protect and defend the Constitution of the United States” by making a public statement against these affronts to the Constitution?
Or must we conclude, by your silence, that you would support a regime led by dictator Donald Trump?
Doug Shafer
Kansas City
