John Donegan’s lawyerly doggerel (“Disqualification,” Jan. 18, New Times) is but another example of the softcore right-wing rhetoric that now permeates the airwaves and blogosphere of the current political realm on a regular basis.
He says he would “like to see Trump out of the race and a more electable candidate running,” then reveals his real agenda by referring to efforts to remove Trump from the ballot as a “political stunt.”
Not really, counselor. It’s just an attempt by reasonable people to avoid the destruction of our democratic republic by those who would stop at nothing, including an attack on our nation’s Capitol, to remain in power.
John Winthrop
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This article appears in Jan 25 – Feb 4, 2024.
Oh please. It’s possible to be against Trump (I am) and to support his right to be on the ballot. (I do.) Nobody ahs been able to explain what the standards are to have committed insurrection. There has been no due process. He has been banned by political opponents that don’t have the power to adjudicate him. Unfortunately, the RNC is trying to stop the primaries moving ahead which is every bit as wrong depriving Haley her chance to upset him or have an alternative in case of his conviction of one of many of the other charges. I’ll be voting for Haley, if it’s a primary, or general elections, even if it’s in a write in.
My erudite dog, a sensitive sort, is offended by your use of the term “lawyerly doggerel”, in that it seems to suggest that his species associates with attorneys, or is somehow involved in formulating the opinions which offend Mr. Winthrop so.