Flagrant foul
Regarding “Morey’s job not at risk over tweet” (Sports, Oct. 7): Daryl Morey’s comments were not outrageous. The team’s management response was outrageous. Maybe it isn’t about politics, but it surely is about their craven cowardice in the pursuit of a little more money.
Catherine McGarrity, Houston
Lefties lament
Regarding “Trump’s defenders and a personality theory” (Opinion, Oct. 5): Jonah Goldberg’s column demonstrates
(again) that lefties just don’t get it. Here’s what’s really at the heart of the issue. Trump’s supporters voted him into office because he’s different. He talks like a normal person, not like a politician. He told us what he really thought and what he really planned to do in office — and his goals were to make our economy prosper, make America more secure and make America more powerful globally.
Democrats have never accepted Trump as their duly elected president and have always harbored a visceral hatred of the man. As a result, Democrats have been coming up with one scheme after another to correct the “mistake” voters made in 2016 ever since the votes were cast. In other words, Democrats and others in what I’ll call the Political Establishment don’t want American voters to have the right to choose the candidate they want unless the Political Establishment approves of their choice.
So, each time Democrats launch a new scheme to remove Trump they’re attacking each individual voter who chose Trump, and therefore his support remains strong despite his imperfections. It clearly will not be good for America if half of American citizens feel they’ve been deprived of the right to vote by their government.
Greg Groh, Porter
Chilling assessment
Regarding “Trump’s defenders and a personality theory“ (Opinion, Oct. 5). Jonah Goldberg’s piece should be reprinted for anyone who missed it the first time. It’s a very accurate, relatively non-judgmental but ultimately chilling assessment of those who continue to stand by the president. Keep in mind Goldberg is about as far from liberal as it gets. Like Joseph Stalin, he writes, Trump embodies the cult of personality in which the whims of the individual transcend party, country, and even reason. Those who support him are forced to defend the indefensible. Goldberg noted that he did not think that Trump was Stalin, but the irony is unavoidable — nearly everything the president has done aligns with Kremlin policy.
That aside, what we are seeing is the Stalinization of the Republican party. While our “America-first” president puts the 2020 White House on the international auction block and proclaims that up is down, the GOP is ethically mute. In standing by him, they stand for nothing.
It’s time for Congress to find its voice. It’s time for anyone who ever supported Trump to ask themselves — is the most prolific liar in American history really “telling it like it is”? It’s time for all of us to demand answers, pay attention, and recognize that nothing less than the survival of our system of government is at stake.
Robert Campbell, Katy
Pelosi’s strategy
Regarding “Ukraine inquiry eyes role of Pence” (Front page, Oct. 5): The latest Democrat attack in the garb of Ukraine inquiry directed against Vice President Mike Pence is aclear sign that Speaker Nancy Pelosi is eyeing the White House since she and her party have lost all hopes of defeating President Trump in 2020 elections.
The speaker is confident of bringing down Trump and the only hurdle before her is the vice president. By directing her attacks now on Pence also, she aims to kill two birds with whatever stones she has or can manufacture. She knows she is in line of succession.
The Democrats, and their liberal and socialist supporters are desperate. Don’t be surprised if in the next few days and weeks millions of Trump supporters start getting congressional subpoenas aimed to find anything, just anything, against Trump and Pence, even if it’s them getting out of bed from the wrong side.
Yatindra Bhatnagar, Katy
Correction: An editorial published on Oct. 4 incorrectly stated that the Montrose neighborhood is in Houston City Council District D. The neighborhood is in District C.
BIBLE VERSE
When a man's ways please the Lord, he maketh even his enemies to be at peace with him.
Proverbs 16:7