Trump’s apologist: Letters to the editor, Jan. 15, 2020
Hanson first-rate Trump apologist
Fresno’s own serial Trump enabler and apologist Victor Davis Hanson is at it again.
After noting the headline of a recent column, “Is Trump the only adult in the room,” it took five minutes before I could stop my guffaws and finish reading his latest “Dear leader” homily of reality distortions and prevarications.
Yes, I understand Hanson is a major shill for Trump and functions as an internet and political analyst troll of the first order, but this continuing blind and almost worshipful defense of a clearly unstable president is representative of the party-wide affliction that is causing the debasement of the once proud GOP.
Sadly, there really is such a thing as Trump Derangement Syndrome and it is pretending that it is OK for a president to act in the way our president does daily on both the domestic and international stage.
Hanson apparently believing he is Obi Wan Kenobi, waves his hand and conjures up a fiction that astonishingly dares to categorize Trump as controlled and composed, invoking the standard Republican “don’t believe what your own eyes see, and your own ears hear” deception.
Of course, we know he is playing to an audience of one.
Hector Torres, Clovis
Hoping to elect a real president
I have always called myself a 1950s moderate Republican. I can’t do that any more. The last intelligent Republicans were Everett McKinley Dirksen, Ted Brooks, Nelson Rockefeller, Henry Cabot Lodge, and Robert Taft. For more than 60 years I have enjoyed disagreeing with presidents, but I can’t do that today since we don’t have a president.
I watched the impeachment hearings and realized that the Republican party, led by Devin Nonsense, has officially changed its name to the DDT (Dumb Donny Trump) Party. Since I have outlived my family genes, I can only hope I live long enough to again disagree with a real president elected in 2020.
Bill Simon, Fresno
Cox needs to face his own issues
House Democrats followed through on a promise. Before President Trump was even elected, they promised to impeach. They promised hyper-partisanship and allegiance to party leaders. Rep. TJ Cox is just another blind follower to his party as revealed by voting to impeach .
TJ Cox promised water for the Central Valley, affordable health care, solutions for the struggling dairy industry. However, during his first year in office, aside from managing a series of lawsuits against him and ethical mishaps, all he has followed through on is participating in a witch hunt. Nancy Pelosi demanded; TJ Cox answered the call. Considering all the scandal in his own life — lawsuits for blocking young girls with disabilities from using his skating facility, tax evasion, nonethical spending audits, etc.— it's surprising he had time for even this single “accomplishment.”
It is clearer than ever where TJ Cox’s loyalty lies, and it’s not with the Central Valley. I guess this is what we get for electing someone who has never been involved in our community, or faced our struggles .
Richard Tipton, Hanford
Bravo to great teachers
What a juxtaposition! Two articles in a December issue of The Bee sum up the disparate sides of education in Fresno these days. The photo of Katie McQuone Rotello, honored for her work performed in one of the most challenging job sites in America today, the public school classroom, is a joyful reminder of how public schools can and often do work magic for many students. Thumbs up!
Directly below the aforementioned article is a photo and article on the latest dust-up concerning former school trustee Brooke Ashjian. The majority of times this former trustee’s name has been cited in The Bee relate to problems concerning his personal or professional behavior in relationship to his job as a trustee. His tenure on the board was marked by turmoil and contentious behavior, neither of which accomplished positives for students in our public schools. Thumbs down!
The take away is this: the real work that offers all students the chance to take advantage of a free public education is not done by trustees or administrators. It is done by teachers like Ms. Botello who, day after day, enter public school classrooms and work to make our world a better place.
Kevin Statham, Sanger
This story was originally published January 15, 2020 at 6:00 AM with the headline "Trump’s apologist: Letters to the editor, Jan. 15, 2020."