The entire controversy exemplified in the Rep. Laurel Libby issue is a symptom of the chaos and diversion tactics of Trumpism that are displacing the real issues America should be focusing on. As David Brooks wrote in a Feb. 13 New York Times opinion piece, “Here’s the essence of Trumpism: It’s to be blithely unconcerned that people without a college degree die about eight years sooner or that hundreds of thousands of Africans might now die of AIDS but to go into paroxysms of moral panic because of who competes in a high school girls’ swim meet.”
Wake up, America. We are losing our country to an oligarchy concerned only with greed and power.
William Phillips
Auburn
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