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Have we no decency?

At long last sir, have you no decency?

These words were spoken to Sen.Joe McCarthy in 1954. He died three years later in disgrace, and his rabid movement died with him.

I can think of 15 to 25 people who should be asked this personally (actually hundreds), but tops is Yancey County's esteemed climate change denier. I wonder how the conversation went with the denier and all his Ph.Dfriends after 60 Minutes revealed that the sea ice in the Arctic has melted and the Russians are trying to confiscate the newly opened sea lanes. I know he would say if it is not Fox News, it is fake news. The aware know better! I just googled fascism, and whose name do you think popped into my head after Hitler and Mussolini, after reading the definition? You guessed right, Trump.

The informed know that Trump lost the election, lost the House, lost the Senate, was impeached twice and is the first president to have such charges brought against him. With a grand jury opened in Georgia and New York, I am hoping that justice will prevail. I have known for years that he was a delusional misfit who is inherently corrupt. He misled his followers with lies and deceit.

Now, the U.S. Senate is probably not going to form a 9/11-like commission to investigate the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol. Out of 50 Republican senators, only 15 agreed to meet with the mother of Brian Sicknick, the slain Capitol police officer. We only need 10 of these senators to vote with the Democrats; I bet it won't happen. They have something to fear! They did not fear, however, forming a commission to investigate Hillary Clinton and Benghazi.

After 33 hearings, $7.8 million and nearly four years, no evidence of wrongdoing was found. She did get beat in 2016 by a corrupt charlatan exactly the results they were seeking.

We had better straighten up. In recent news, Russia again hacked us. Putin is winning in his attempts to divide us and we are too ignorant or unaware to realize it.

Have we no decency?

Michael Perham, Clermont

I have been a resident of Leesburg and a Daily Commercial subscriber for the past several years. Each week Ive read with interest the Op-Ed section, noting that Russ Sloan was afforded a weekly byline to promote a decidedly right-wing point of view.

While perhaps expecting thoughtful, positive treatises on conservative principles and values, instead we received a weekly tirade, essentially telling us the Democratic Party was responsible for all of our problems, and the ultimate end of the republic as we know it.

It didnt seem to matter who was president, or which party had a congressional majority, Sloan told us that each and every problem in our country was the other guys fault. Over the years and through this unending weekly barrage of rhetoric, two absolutes have emerged: Sloan always told us the sky was falling and the sky never fell.

Tom Pierce, Leesburg

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Today's letters: Readers comment on former President Trump and right-wing op-eds - Daily Commercial