I strongly urge the Republican Party (the party of Lincoln) to repudiate the Nazi Party and the KKK. This should not be difficult, but it is necessary. Our silence implies acquiescence with the president’s sophistry, that many “fine people” march with torch-bearing night riders chanting words of racial and religious hatred. And that people who oppose intimidation are equally to blame for any violence that arises when hatred is repudiated.
Both of my parents fought in World War II against the Nazis. And, as Sen. Orrin Hatch has said, “We should call evil by its name. My brother didn’t give his life fighting Hitler, for Nazi ideas to go unchallenged here at home.