I must say, I don’t think I’ve laughed as hard since Al Capp’s Li’l Abner cartoon stopped some 40 years ago. In Al Fonzi’s “Conservative perspective” (Dec. 3), he goes delightfully reactionary with his “Democrat” Party Trump-talk. When he says that the Republican Party were “the original political champions of desegregation and civil rights,” I believe he is reaching back some 150 years, and the Republican Party has changed quite a bit since then. And when he writes that Democrats are “dedicated to the demise of working- and middle-class Americans,” he is supposing the suicide of that political party. Which is not quite what the latest election showed.
Clement Salvadori
Atascadero
This article appears in Last-Minute Gift Guide 2020.
Actually, the recent election DID show a substantial weakening of the Democratic party and their agenda. Even with the very unpopular Trump serving as an effective catalyst to motivate and bring out Democratic voters, a raging pandemic and damage to the economy,and a cheerleadng media, the Democrats still managed to lose a significant number of seats in the House, failed to get control of the Senate, and had a number of loses in state and local government, including big initiative losses in reliably-blue California. Claiming a mandate for the current direction of the party, is like the captain of the Titanic claiming a vindication of his seamanship skills.