It is so sad to see how far the Republican Party has fallen. Is there no such thing as empathy or sympathy anymore? First, U.S. Sen. Mike Lee from Utah posts humorous comments about the assassination of a Democratic politician from Minnesota and her husband. Then President Donald Trump says he’s not going to call Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz to offer condolences. “Why waste time?” was his response (“Trump says calling Minnesota Gov. Walz after lawmaker shootings would ‘waste time,’” June 17).
I am afraid Hillary Clinton was right when she called Trump and his followers a basket of deplorables. As Boston attorney Joseph Welch once asked Wisconsin Republican U.S. Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy during the U.S. Army-McCarthy hearings in 1954, “Have you no sense of decency?”
Apparently not.
— James Waurin, Nottingham
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