On July 24, a reader wrote to object to The Columbian referring to a Republican-endorsed candidate as an “extremist MAGA” (“Stop extreme rhetoric,” Our Readers’ Views, July 24). He asked, “Can we stop the name-calling”? He said “extreme words matter” and “let’s debate the issues and stop the name-calling.”
We agree. That is why we object to Donald Trump, who posted on Truth Social that “Crooked Joe Biden is the worst President by far, in the history of the Nation,” and “Kamala, our horrible and incompetent border czar will be worse!” In other posts Trump wrote that “Fake News” tried “to make ‘Sleepy’ look like a great President — he was the WORST and Lyin’ Kamala into a competent person, which she is not.”
Instead, we prefer President Joe Biden’s comments on July 24: “We have to decide, do we still believe in honesty, decency, respect, freedom, justice and democracy? In this moment can we see those we disagree with not as enemies, but as fellow Americans? Can we do that? Does character in public life still matter?”
