The words in the cartoon that appears below the Sept. 3 editorial (”When Oak Park’s mayor isn’t liberal enough for protesters”) perfectly encapsulate it: “The firestorms continue to be fanned by a tsunami of hot air.” Of course it was awful that the protesters trashed the Oak Park mayor’s home. He should have had them all arrested.
What completely baffles me as a longtime reader of the Chicago Tribune is not just the editorial board’s level of outrage. It is why we have seen no editorial outrage on, say, the actual threat to democracy caused by the destruction of Postal Service property—with the purpose of compromising mail-in voting? Is that “how democracy works?” I would say the Post Service deserves at least as much editorial outrage as the house in Oak Park.
I could go on, but we all know the litany of harm and death this president has caused through nonfeasance and malfeasance, including the 186,000 deaths and rising of Americans because Donald Trump didn’t want the coronavirus to interfere with the stock market and his reelection campaign.
I really hope the members of the editorial board take a deep breath and open their eyes to what is happening before them.
— Jeanne Follman, Wilmette
Note from KBJ: Donald Trump is saving this country from the people you support, Jeanne. One day you'll realize it and be thankful.
