Lee Roy Lollar wrote in his January 21 letter to The Dispatch that “the light you see is the Trump train.” It’s a phrase he’s used before, and the implication is, again, that we should all hop on and enjoy the ride.
I wish Mr. Lollar would apply the same scrutiny to the President’s behavior that he does to the actions of Mayor Smith and the Columbus City Council. I can just see his reaction if he happened to find out that Mayor Smith was delaying the transfer of city funds to, oh, say, the Golden Triangle LINK, making the release contingent upon the LINK’s ponying up some dirt on the Mayor’s next election opponent.
I hasten to point out that there are other trains out there and I suspect this Trump ride, especially if the President wins re-election this fall, will come closer and closer to the ride we’d experience on the Putin train, if only the President were as smart. Since he isn’t, I suspect it would come closer to a Six Flags-esque “Mr. Trump’s Wild Roller Coaster” ending in a dramatic splash down somewhere none of us wants to be.
But Mr. Lollar bends and twists and manages to avoid that. To me, he is dancing on quite the ethical pinhead.
Tell Senators Wicker and Hyde-Smith to put on their adult pants and support an impeachment trial complete with, gasp, evidence, both old and new. Otherwise, they provide tacit support for a President who values his own power and wealth far more than he could ever care about anything of yours.
Paul Mack
Columbus
I read with a startling realization Lee Roy Lollar’s letter to the editor Tuesday that many people are blind to what is going on around them. How similar his words were to those uttered by Germans during the rise of their country under Hitler. They didn’t care it didn’t realize that marginalized citizens were being abused! They were being taken care of and that is all they cared about. Did they know Jews were being exterminated? We do not know for sure but the signs were there. As I continued reading his glowing reports of Trump I couldn’t help but think to myself he sounded like a German citizen during the Nazi regime as atrocities were being performed all around him. If we continue to let this President ignore the law we are headed for a bleak future.
Jerry Fortenberry
Columbus
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