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Feb. 5, 2024 Editor, The News-Gazette: A frog agrees to carry a scorpion across a river, the scorpion assuring him he won’t sting because they would both drown. Being a scorpion, he stings the frog, drowning them both.
Did you ever imagine law wouldn’t apply to the President? That he could personally change the Constitution? That martial law and being a dictator would be publicly announced as policy? That a fake elector scheme would be organized to nullify voting?
Republicans and Trump didn’t reform immigration when they controlled the government, banking on prejudices of old immigrants’ descendants against new immigrants. Why else complain about the immigrant problem, then instruct Republicans to oppose the Senate’s current bi-partisan solution Republicans favored a few weeks ago?
To Nixon’s racist Southern strategy Trump added appeals to xenophobia, sexism, homophobia. He knows some fundamentalists, hoping for a theocracy, will celebrate a multiple adulterer and convicted rapist as the new messiah. That video exists. We will be nuking hurricanes, rerouting them with sharpies, dismantling wind turbines and protecting the airports of 1776.
Contested states conducted audits but found no fraud. Trump lost in court 60 times, even with judges he appointed. No winning Republicans declared their wins fraudulent. If Democrats fixed an election, would they allow Marjorie Taylor Greene, Jim Jordan, Matt Gaetz, James Comer and Lauren Boebert in Congress?
How stable is the genius of a wannabe dictator who argues an incumbent can declare himself still president, and have his lawyers argue total immunity allows the incumbent to have opponents, including the wannabe, assassinated?
Jeff Sessions learned what comes of trusting a scorpion.
Trump does follow rules: lying works—promises can always be broken with “I never said that”— MAGAs willingly revising what they heard. It’s always only about him. Scorpions rule!
This time, it won’t be a frog that dies. It will be democracy. JOE PETITE Rockbridge County
