Letter: Where is the Republican Party?

Published 8:50 am Monday, October 17, 2022

Steve Bannon (Trump’s pardoned chief strategist) helped get Mussolini’s party back in power, 70 years after he was hung upside down. Italy’s Giorgia Meloni and her far-right party, along with Hungary’s autocratic leader, tells U.S. conservatives to join their culture war, at CPAC. Ted Cruz calls CPAC crowd “dangerous radicals” to raucous applause, obviously in ‘jest’ for fodder.

After winking at QAnon for years, Donald Trump is overtly embracing the baseless conspiracy theories, even as the number of frightening real-world events linked to it grows.

I keep thinking, we still have good Republican leaders, who do not follow the extreme far right. If that is so, I don’t hear them. What I see and hear, is those who speak up, are drummed out. Meanwhile the rest cower in silence, fearing the far right’s hammer.

Have we not learned from history? Silence is compliance.

Brazil being engulfed by its own internet-fueled big lie, copied from Trump.

Inflation today, here and throughout the world, is a serious problem, causing serious discord, clamoring for change. What change will we vote for? Educate yourself before you vote and choose wisely. (I was born under Nazi occupation, so not so long ago).

POUL TOFTEMARK

Rosburg