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Editor,
Since the election, I have tried to keep calm about the state of affairs in our country, particularly the conduct of the man elected to represent the country that I love. I have distanced myself from extreme feelings and headline catching blah blah blah, from what I need to read to stay informed. I have engaged on numerous occasions with folks that elected President Trump to talk through their perspectives, but really haven’t found too many people to have that conversation with since the winter. Beyond gaudy Trump billboards and Trump bumper stickers, I struggle to find people and ask them what the heck is going on, what the heck did they vote for, and do they still support this obvious crook?
I think this madness has encouraged people to embrace their community and get out more. We have no control of all of that on the national stage, beyond our civic duty of calling and writing our representatives. I have called and emailed some myself. I want to acknowledge the folks that have literally written almost every letter and made every phone call imaginable. I want to thank them for their civic duty, because I know at times, I had become weary and felt downtroddenjust like I was supposed to feel.
I must confess, I still get caught up in the soap opera cycle because there is some hope in me that this presidency was just a bad dream for America. I am quite thrilled that in the last 24 hours Mr. Trump’s main lawyer, who helped defend him in the Trump University fraud case, and the press secretary, Sean Spicer, have all resigned. More resignations are surely on their way. When the president of the United States starts asking about his pardoning powers for family and self, his lawyers are resigning, the second FBI Director is being threatened not to investigate his collusion with Russia, you have to know that the man is just plain corrupt and we as a country need him out of the White House, and all of the corrupt men that he brought with him. I have Thomas Jefferson deeply in mind these days.
Shay Farmer
St. Ignatius
