Re: “Trump blames DEI and Biden for crash under his watch” (Jan. 31, A6) and “Snap out of it, Democrats” (Jan. 31, Opinion):
If we thought President Donald Trump had reached the underside of disrespectful, denigrating and merciless speak, we have been proved mistaken when with none knowledge and details by any means he blamed the horrendous airplane and helicopter crash on range necessities with the inference that “these” persons are not competent sufficient to carry jobs with accountability.
When the hero of the 2009 crash into the Hudson River, Chesley B. Sullenberger III, was requested in an MSNBC interview if he had any feedback to the president’s remarks, he answered in his calm, deliberate method: “Not stunned. Disgusted.”
Figuring out that there are heroes of Capt. Sullenberger’s caliber, sung and unsung, with integrity, ethical backbone, guts and private braveness makes it simpler for us the individuals to heed Charles M. Blow’s name to motion. In his column, he writes “ … resistance have to be expressed in opinion polls and at money registers.”
I sense that individuals and never solely Democrats are waking up from their preliminary stupor and are able to take up the battle once more for the essential decency we wish to stay by.
Ruth Kildall, Seattle
