Letter to the Editor, Monterey Herald, June 20, 2023

Does anybody remember when we had a two-party political system? Up until six or seven years ago, we had the Democratic Party and the Republican Party. The former is still here, but the Republicans morphed into a personality cult based on the lies and ego of Donald J. Trump. Instead of normal policies and ideas, this cult believes in bizarre thinking such as (1) Trump, with dozens of well-documented felony counts, is innocent because he has been framed by the corrupted Department of Justice and the FBI, (2) the January 6, 2021 Capital insurrection was mostly an enthusiastic political protest, (3) the 2020 presidential election was stolen, even though there is no evidence of such. In addition, quite a few bought into a wacky conspiracy theory (QAnon) that Satan-worshipping Democratic politicians and other well-known liberals were running an anti-Trump, cannibalistic pedophilia ring plotting to take over our country. I shudder to think how the 2024 election will go.

Arlen Grossman