CMR silent on racists

I’m in local real estate here in Spokane. I’ve noticed a small but growing stream of “preppers” and white supremacists coming to our region over the years, and there are forecasts for that to continue to grow. We had done such a good job of getting rid of the Richard Butler types in the year 2000; we had hopes of watching that movement die out.

Well, here it is in 2016, and we’ve elected an unknown quantity in Donald Trump, but we can tell something about him from his early appointments. Steve Bannon is to be his closest adviser. He was the editor of Brietbart, a media outlet he himself called a “platform for the alt-right.”

As we saw in the video footage in Washington D.C., from the National Policy Institute, a supposed think tank for “European Americans,” the leader Richard Spencer proclaimed, “Heil Trump! Heil Victory,” including the stiff arm salute and references from Hitler’s “Mein Kampf.” We can see for ourselves where these people aspire to take the country.

My question is to Cathy McMorris Rogers: Why haven’t you stood up to these racists? If not for yourself and your children, for us, your constituents? Are you opposed to this flexing of white nationalism or empowered by it? We’re watching, and so are the children.

Cynthia Hamilton

Spokane