Trump vs. the Squad

Donald Trump yesterday got all indignant about four brown-skinned women congressional representatives trying to tell him how “to run the country.” Just to be clear, it is part of their job to tell any president how to run the country. It is what the citizens of their respective districts expect of them. It’s called congressional oversight. Trump may not respect the oversight powers of Congress and the Senate, especially when ethnic minority women are exercising those powers, but they are doing their jobs, whether he likes it or not.

Watching Trump turn Greenville, N.C., into an American Reichstag last night was disgusting. Whipping up a rally of overwhelmingly white loyalists to attack an elected congressional representative is a dangerous incitement to violence led by our so-called commander in chief. This guy has no limit for low behavior. Seems he will do anything to cheerlead for the bigotry, fear and loathing team, the Freedom Caucus, that now drives the GOP agenda.

Let’s hope we can survive as a democratic republic until we get a chance to excise this cancer from our body politic in 2020.

Jim Wavada

Spokane