In late June, an op-ed by none other than U.S. Senate candidate Mitt Romney appeared in our own Salt Lake Tribune, and Mr. Romney finally seemed to address that that nasty dilemma stuck in Utah’s political craw: Whether to support or oppose President Donald J. Trump.
And how simple the answer turned out to be! When it comes to Trump, writes placatory Romney, praise the good and reject the bad. Well, that’s pretty reasonable, right?
But as I read Romney’s “Where I stand on the Trump agenda,” I noticed an eerie absence. In the same article that Romney writes, “if you stay silent you tacitly assent to the captain’s posture,” Romney remains wholly quiet on the issue that has come to most singularly represent the cruelty of the Trump administration: family separation at the U.