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Robert B. Elliott's avatar

The following is the 'letter to the editor' I submitted to the local Las Vegas Sun newspaper late last night. They publish most of my letters but it may be a week or two before it appears in the paper. I believe it is on point for this rant. I made a couple of last minute changes which I cannot recall exactly, since I was working from a draft.

Democrats and the Harris campaign have seized upon a new meme to attach to Trump, Vance, and the MAGA Republicans. They are calling them weird. Weird is an accurate descriptor for the behavior of the Republicans, and Trump has always behaved in ways which could only be considered abnormal, very peculiar, and pathological. However, the word “weird” should be given a rest now.

It is of urgent importance that no one be allowed to forget that Trump and the Republicans are obsessed with controlling others, violence, and new ways to gain and abuse power. The way they must be described and the words which should be repeated for the next three months are extreme, dangerous, anti-democratic, and un-American. They seek opportunities to punish those with whom they disagree and they entertain fantasies of torture, mayhem, and destruction. Trump’s sadistic tendencies and his worship of totalitarian power are not weird. They are very familiar to those who have lived in countries where freedom, liberty, and justice are only vague, dim, and distant memories. Weird is living in a house filled with stacks of old newspapers or believing that you are receiving messages via your mirror.

Trump and his cult members are not weird. They are weak-minded, amoral brutes and bullies. They are mean-spirited, cruel, and petty. They are power-hungry and duplicitous. We have had the words to identify their sick obsessions all along, and we should use them every chance we get.

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Bryan Hickey's avatar

Loyalty to Trump is their ruse. What do they really care about Trump other than being a convenient tool to mobilize the masses to enable them to dismantle the administrative state. Just look at who is funding the Heritage Foundation, the Federalist Society, etc. They want no taxes, no regulations, no unions, and no interference from the government which they intend to control. For them, the government's purpose is to protect their wealth and punish or eliminate those that get in their way!

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