Letter to the editor: Republican double standards

Tribune-Review | Wednesday, March 26, 2025 7:00 a.m.

I have to wonder where the writer of the letter “Time to find common ground with Trump” (March 15, TribLive) has been these past 20 years or so. The writer paints the Democrats as mean-spirited by pointing out Rep. Al Green’s vocal and disruptive opposition to President Trump’s recent speech. Where was he when Reps. Marjorie Taylor Greene and Lauren Boebert were mocking and disrupting President Joe Biden’s address?

Then he points out the unprecedented refusal to escort the president into the room for his address. Where was he when the Republicans refused to even have hearings on President Obama’s Supreme Court nominee for almost a full year by using the hyperbole excuse that a judge should not be seated during a presidential election? Only to turn around four years later and confirm Trump’s nominee, Amy Coney Barrett, 30 days after she was nominated and a week before the 2020 presidential election.

Was the writer just being sarcastic when he pointed out that Trump showed support for police officers who died in the line of duty? I guess the police officers who got beat up and run over by the Jan. 6 Republicans who stormed the Capitol don’t count? Because in the past, Trump actually praised these attackers as patriots and then went one step further and pardoned them. Don’t follow his words, follows his actions.

After losing the 2020 election and attacking the Capitol like the MAGAs did, now the letter-writer thinks it’s time to find common ground. Give me a break!

Don Norris

Middlesex