"Letters to the Editor"
The Wall Street Journal
Dear Sirs:
Senator Danforth's recommendations to the Republicans often sound like Democrat talking points. This reminds me that Republicans have long been dissatisfied with the way their representatives promote, or don't promote, their values.
Thus, Danford says "The Bill of Rights protects the people against a government that punishes critics and wreaks retribution on opponents." Of course, this is what Democrats were doing during the Biden Administration. The Democrat talking point is that this is what the Trump Administration is doing now. However, the smears and malicious prosecutions against Donald Trump and others (Rudy Giuliani is still on trial in Arizona) frequently have involved misconduct and crimes, not the least of which was lying under oath. Letting them get away with it now, when a reckoning is due, does not mean they will gratefully reform their ways. It actually means they will be emboldened to do it again, given the chance. Governor Jefferson Davis Pritzker has already said so.
Similarly, Danford says, "And no administration should direct what universities can teach, where law firms can practice, or whom comedians can mock." However, when universities teach communism, terrorism, and anti-Semitism, they are not owed public money. And if they are practicing racial discrimination, and tolerating the harassment of Jews and others, they lose their right to any public money. Danford seems to overlook this. And if unfunny "comedians" have not "mocked" but have lied about public events, they should be called out. The market will punish them, as it is doing.
Thus, Senator Danford looks like one of the old "Country Club" Republicans whom Thomas Sowell has said poorly represent Republican voters. Danford echoes enough Democrat talking points that we might even wonder if he is properly a "RINO," i.e. a "Republican in Name Only." However well or poorly Mr. Trump represents traditional Republic values, it is obvious that he draws far more enthusiasm from Republican voters, and many "Reagan Democrats," than the likes of Senator Danforth. And Danforth doesn't even mention the pro-crime ideology of the Democrats. Nor have Republicans ever been for open borders.
Yours truly,
Kelley L. Ross, Ph.D.