Vote for a “bully”?

So the Spokesman wants me to vote for a candidate for president that they describe as “a bully, and a bigot,” a “wretched human being” who “panders to racists. He tweets conspiracy theories. He’s cavalier about COVID-19 and has led poorly through the pandemic. He denies climate change.”

And those are his good qualities. On the other hand, we shouldn’t vote for his opponent because he’s old and wants to tax billionaires to pay their fair share.

By what leap of logic could any newspaper defend the chaos of the past four years using these arguments? It’s not clear what world Stacey Cowles is living in when he touts that Trump has “reset trade and diplomatic relationships in America’s favor.” The United States continues to shoot itself in the foot with Trump’s sanctions, and cozied up to despots and dictators while turning our backs on long-standing allies.

Fortunately, newspaper political endorsements carry little weight today — no one cares whom the paper has arrogantly deemed to deserve their vote. And endorsements such as this, which have no basis in reality, feed the idea that newspapers are irrelevant.

Here’s what your endorsement should have stated: The current president, through his denial of science, has killed over 225,000 Americans. We have approximately 4% of the world’s population, but some 25% of the world’s Covid cases. Why would you re-elect an individual who has no plan to deal with this virus, and is killing our citizens like no other country in the world?

Joe Pitt

Liberty Lake