in response

I'm not sure what to say in response to a shameful day in America. There are many who can speak more eloquently than I.

Our president who's blown dog whistle politics as a well practiced art said in response to Nazi's marching in Charlottesville, "there are fine people on both sides." It was reported by his first wife that he kept a book of Hitler's speeches at bedside. https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/donald-trump-adolf-hitler-books-bedside-cabinet-ex-wife-ivana-trump-vanity-fair-1990-a7639041.html He believes he should be president for life, just as is his beloved Putin in Russia.

His embrace of certain people and his use of code words from rascist and anti-Semitic sources have provided cover for American anti-Semites, racists and white supremacists. Perhaps he was forgetting or ignoring the millions of Jews killed by the Nazis.

In response to the killing of eleven in the Synagogue in Pittsburgh, he's said a few scripted words written by others before launching into his continued attacks on the free press and on Democrats. The man is incapable of being a normal American president. He has shamed us all.

One must wonder about Republicans. My dad was one. In the bottom drawer of our bureau when I was a child, he kept a scrap book of images from the German concentration camp at Nordhausen. My dad, as an officer in the 104th Infantry Division had to go there to witness and to assist in the clean up, ordering German citizens to go in and stack bodies that in life had been reduced to walking skeletons. My father would be shocked to see a Republican party enslaved to dog whistle politics and anti-Semitism, and a leader cast in the image of the man who attempted to enslave Europe.

Will the Republican party wake up? Early voting has started in Arkansas. I urge you to vote. If you are a Republican urge the leaders of your party to understand that we all are much better than what the party has become.