The founder of this newspaper, my grandfather Bruce B. Gaumer, was a proud Democrat all of his life, but I know he is turning over in his grave at what his former party ha become today.
It is becoming painfully clear that the political party makeup in the United States is undergoing a major shift.
For more than 150 years, going all the way back to the Civil War, the Republican and Democrat parties were the top two political groups whose nominees faced off each election for local, state and national offices. There were other lesser parties, but for the most part they were not a factor.
The election of Donald Trump as President in November of 2016 has changed all that. The Republican Party is still a viable entity. But the Democrat Party has ceased to exist. It has been replaced by the Hate Trump Party.
Leaders of the Hate Trump Party have one goal on their agenda, and that is to oppose everything the President proposes, embarrass him (and members of his family) at every turn, ridicule and smear him with lies and innuendoes that have no factual basis, and in short treat him as if he were Adolf Hitler reincarnated. And the saddest of all this is that most of the liberal media is leading the charge for them.
The Hate Trump Party has become so liberal, a conservative person, such as my grandfather, has no place as a member. In addition to the assault on President Trump, its leaders are espousing a socialist agenda that boggles the mind. They want open borders so no one is barred from entry, they favor abortion at any time during pregnancy right up to the birth of the baby, they want government control of every facet of every-day living, including free medical care and free higher education, and they propose a 70 percent income tax on wealthy citizens to supposedly pay for all the costs.
These Hate Trump Party leaders care absolutely nothing about their constituents, the welfare of this country, or its citizens. Their only desire is power, putting money in their greedy pockets and hounding Trump out of office. This has been demonstrated often in the last many months, even before Trump took office. But the telltale evidence is their stand of the border security issue. They totally ignore the illegal immigrant problem that allows criminals to enter the U.S. They ignore the horrific opioid crisis across the nation with drugs pouring into the country through the southern border. They ignore the horror of human trafficking involving young women and boys being brought here across that same border.
All these Hate Trump Party members want is to oppose anything Trump espouses … even if it is damaging for America.
Hopefully Americans are aware or can be made aware of what’s happening and thwart these people who will destroy the United States if unchecked.