I did somewhat enjoy Al Fonzi’s “Will America heal?” (Jan. 28) opinion concerning the Jan. 6 events in D.C. The attempted insurrection was well organized by right-wing groups. Like the Proud Boys, who remind me of the Bluto character in the old Popeye cartoons. Bluto likes to use brute force when battling Popeye, and Popeye eats his spinach and wins. Al does exaggerate a bit, saying that the crowd “numbered in the hundreds of thousands” when more reputable (to me) people say under 10,000. Quite a difference. Al does write that “Trump should have accepted responsibility, resigned, and apologized to America,” which I definitely agree with. And we should all eat more spinach.
Clement Salvadori
Atascadero
This article appears in Feb 11-21, 2021.
Obviously, the nation should have been eating more spinach this summer when legions of Bluto-esque thugs were killing cops and burning and looting our cities.