To the editor:
Goldberg is mistaken to use the past tense when talking about “the price the GOP paid on his watch” because of Trump-approving Republicans.
The toll will be ongoing and forever part of the Republican brand. Trump isn’t just some barker fronting the GOP tent. Republicans stand in allegiance to their leader.
The echoes of his divisive calls to ban, wall out and lock up the bogeymen will fade like the memories of his vitriolic party warfare and attacks on the free press. But even if establishment Republicans are never held to account for abiding Trump’s lies and rampant abuses of power, the GOP no longer exists as the party of fiscal responsibility, free trade or states’ rights.
The mantras that approving Republicans now hang their hats on are brutal immigration enforcement, tax cuts for the wealthy, deregulation in support of gluttonous use of natural resources and adherence to the U.S. Constitution only when politically expedient.
Robert Fox, Los Angeles
Note from KBJ: President Trump defends himself from vicious attacks by the press. Robert Fox, a certified idiot, says that Trump "attacks . . . the free press."
