Letters: DeWine, don't appoint Vivek Ramaswamy senator. Huppke making GOP victories easy.
Republicans should wear shades
In “U.S. reelects Trump, a totem of worst in every one of us,” Rex Huppke expresses his belief that the election of Donald Trump as our next president is an unequivocal indication that over 50% of voting Americans are either clueless or embrace hate, racism, sexism, xenophobia and lawlessness.
The future of the Republican Party looks bright, as long as, Democratic Party supporters like Huppke want to blame the defeat of their presidential nominee on the character and judgment of the American people.
David Fowler, Westerville
Senator Ramaswamy?
As I listened to Kamala’s concession speech yesterday, I was reminded of the concession speech Donald Trump never gave.
The only speech he gave was the Jan. 6 marching orders to the Proud Boys and other violent militants to attack our police, ransack our capitol and stop the peaceful transfer of power, for the first time in our lives.
His support and encouragement of these criminals didn’t stop on Jan. 6. He continues to promote them as heroes and condemns the police who did their jobs that day.
Trump repeatedly asks people to stand and honor them and Bernie Moreno, Jim Jordan and JD Vance did so this past March in Dayton.
They have never reversed their position to say it is wrong to honor and pardon them.
Vivek Ramaswamy is a one of the top supporters and a featured sponsor of the Patriot Freedom Project, a radical group who continues to raise millions of dollars and other aid and comfort to these violent convicts. Gov. Mike DeWine is rumored to be considering him for the Senate seat Vance will vacant.
Someone who supports this historic travesty should not be considered for Senate, or any other position for that matter. I’ve reached out to DeWine’s office multiple times and he continues to put party over principal, refusing to denounce those who honor those who attacked democracy.
Greg Phelps, Columbus
The value of integrity
I have a few remarks on the recent presidential election.
Donald Trump's victory was decisive, but hardly a rout. But going forward, people should confront this fact: Trump is a convicted criminal with multiple convictions.
Most recently, he was convicted by jury of 34 felony counts of falsifying business records to cover up hush money payments.
I'm not surprised. By 2016, my impression of Trump was that he resembled nothing so much as con artists I'd encountered on the streets from time to time.
Dwight Eisenhower was president when I was born.
Eisenhower, a Republican, was a man of great integrity and accomplishment. Over 60 years later, a startlingly high percentage of Americans either don't value integrity in a president or are very poor at assessing someone's integrity. This does much to explain Trump's reelection. Trump's party has also devolved since Eisenhower's time.
I hope people will keep such thoughts in mind as Trump, for example, resumes the devil-may-care nonchalance about the federal government's strained finances he displayed in his first term. And the next time he refuses to accept responsibility for his actions.
Michael Hamill, Columbus
What sustains human life?
The drought is here to stay.
We have passed the tipping point where we have cleared too many trees for construction. Trees attract water, and they make oxygen.
Intel, Microsoft, Google and Apple move to the water and then move on. Yes, they create jobs, but cultivating nature is a job too, if we would value it. It would be wise to ask our ourselves and governments, "What sustains human life? Water or data centers?”
Sabrina Bobrow, Columbus
This article originally appeared on The Columbus Dispatch: Letters: Vivek Ramaswamy would be an awful senator. Don't do it, DeWine.