Keith Burgess-Jackson, J.D., Ph.D.

Mayor Steve Adler did a pretty stupid thing in violating his own recommendations for COVID-19 behavior. On the whole he has been a reasonably good mayor.

When I look at President Donald Trump’s behavior over the past four years—putting kids in cages, separating babies and children from parents, grifting, and, worst of all, his handling of the pandemic—what Adler did was small potatoes.

Put this in perspective, folks. Trump should be tried for crimes against humanity. Adler apologized. Trump never does.

Michele Missner, Austin

Note from KBJ: Stop projecting your immorality onto President Trump, Michele.

Great. Most corrupt Election in history, by far. We won!!! https://t.co/nGMMaRQmz8

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 10, 2020

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Donald Trump's approval rating is 50%. Barack Obama's approval rating at the same point of his presidency (9 December 2012) was 56%.

According to a Washington Post survey reported in Sunday’s Globe, 220 of the 249 Republican members of Congress continued to remain silent regarding Joe Biden’s victory in the 2020 election, and another two considered Donald Trump the winner. Conventional wisdom and myriad talking heads seem to think that these Republicans are so fearful of the terrible tweeting thumbs of Trump that they must remain mute lest the tempestuous one unleash his wrath—and that of his base—on them. So these Republicans must bide their time until the storm passes and they can once again find their tongues and spines.

Are these supposed representatives of the people such cowards? Have they all lost the courage of their convictions—the ones they convinced their voters that they had? Or did they lack such convictions to begin with?

After all the destruction Trump has brought to our institutions of democracy and all the outrages he has visited upon our sensibilities, it is high time we consider that, for these men and women in Congress, he is doing precisely what they approve of, and that they are not quivering cowards but rather full-throated supporters of his actions. That goes as well for any elected conservative who keeps quiet; their silence makes them complicit.

William Miller

Roslindale

There is massive evidence of widespread fraud in the four states (plus) mentioned in the Texas suit. Just look at all of the tapes and affidavits!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 9, 2020

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Here is John Nolte's latest column.

Maybe our current president wasn’t in church when his pastor preached sermons about God’s love for him, always, even when he might have come up short and been the loser. Maybe he also missed sermons admonishing him to worship only God—certainly not money nor power. And does he ever show that he heard sermons about loving his neighbor as himself?

Maybe he misinterpreted Norman Vincent Peale’s treatise on “The Power of Positive Thinking.”

Judy Lockett, Prairie Village

Note from KBJ: Maybe he didn't lose, Judy.

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