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I encourage anyone represented by a Republican Senator to send him or her a letter post haste. This is mine ...
Dear Senators Marshall and Moran,
I am a new Kansan getting to know my political representatives. By reputation Kansas is a conservative state, so it’s no surprise to me, Senators, that you are Republicans. Yet how different you seem from the great Kansans I know of: Dwight Eisenhower, Bob Dole, Alf Landon (yes, I know who Alf Landon was and I didn’t grow up here).
Each of them would understand the threat that Donald Trump poses to our freedom, prosperity and security. He deploys our military to point weapons at American citizens; enriches himself daily; appoints incompetent sycophants to positions of great power; invents a storm sewer of lies in real time; spends much of his time sending sophomoric social media messages; insults foreign leaders; cannot distinguish our friends from our adversaries. That's just a start. At this moment he has authorized men of the worst character to negotiate away the freedom and independence of a democratic Ukraine in favor of a global thug. He thinks he can win a Peace Prize, even as he fritters away the peace of Europe.
The distressing thing, Senators, is that you know this, your Senate colleagues know it, and your staffs know it. Yet the most prominent thing pasted on your website, Senator Marshall, is the fabrication that Democrats support health care fraud. One must ask, in this moment in Kansas’ long and distinguished history, would Dwight Eisenhower or Bob Dole* hide behind this foolishness? I think they would stand up like the patriots they were and say “Enough!” Enough lying, enough bootlicking, enough hatred. They would tell their fellow Kansans the truth, that the President they voted for is a cruel, vulgar and lawless conman who threatens both their freedom and security. You might lose the next election, but people have sacrificed more for our country.
You might take a lesson from Liz Cheney, a real patriot, and the daughter of a patriot whose politics I disliked but who I still respected. Because their grandchildren, great-grandchildren and beyond will know where they stood and what they did when Donald Trump tried to end the experiment called America.
*Bob Dole supported Trump in 2016. He would later say he was "Trumped out."
