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Republican Partys reputation is crumbling

before the eyes of many Americans

We are witnessing the demise of the Grand Old Party. And the Republican Party has earned the consequence they wrought.

The GOP enabled the dishonesty and ineptness of President Donald Trump while he tried to eliminate the Affordable Care Act without any real attempt at a substitute.

His administration separated babies from their parents at the border to set an example while making virtually no attempt to reunite them.

The gross mishandling and misrepresentation of the grave risks COVID-19 posed for the country serves as another reminder. Let's not forget the blocking of legislation in the Senate by Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, the Enabler-in-Chief; not the least of which was the final relief bill to innocent citizens who may be thrown out of their residences for lack of payment of rent and mortgages.

Let's recall the tax cut that mostly went to the richest Americans. There is the damage to the institutions and norms that have held our democracy together for over 200 years (with one notable exception). And the same can be said for the corporate tax cut, which helped the stock market, but left over 50 percent of the population in the lurch because they dont participate because they are too poor.

There is the politicization of the Justice Department by attempting to use the halls of justice to help friends (Roger Stone, General Flynn and Sheriff Joe Arpaio.

And perhaps the worst transgressions on our traditions of fair play and decency involved hypocrisy of the most recent Supreme Court confirmation. No, it was not illegal, just morally reprehensible.

And the top prize for hubris and deceit are the attacks on the integrity of our voting processes without any evidence by Trump, whose only purpose is to sow dissent and open the doors to violence from his alt-right supporters should their party lose the presidential race.

The public will rightly recoil at these insults and attacks on our values and the institutions that keep us on the straight and narrow.

And it is for these reasons that the Republican Party will crumble under the pressure to retain credibility in the public's eyes. And it may well be that the punishment will last for a generation, as the American public recoils from what its leaders let happen to the country and their party in recent years.

Memories are very long for messing with our system of government to this degree for which so many have sacrificed so much except for Trump. He should leave the White House no later than Jan. 20th to the obscurity he so richly deserves.

Bob Fagin, Jacksonville Beach

I was raised as a Democrat but

the party I knew has left me

I grew up in the suburbs of Atlanta, and I with the rest of my family were brought up as Southern Democrats. Back then I was taught that a Democrat was a person who represented and fought for the working person. A person who stood up for the middle and lower class. A person who fought against government corruption and supported our military and the sanctity of life.

Republicans were viewed as old, fat, rich, white men sitting around their country club drinking scotch and reviewing stock market tickers.

Every morning at school, prior to class we stood with our hands over our hearts and recited the Pledge of Allegiance and remained standing through the playing of the "The Star-Spangled Banner."To not do so would be to invite a bloody nose at recess. My first presidential vote was cast for a peanut farmer named Jimmy Carter, as was my second.

Back then a man would be applauded for exposing government corruption and upholding the laws of the land.

Back then you depended on Huntley and Brinkley for honest non-biased news reporting.

A lot has changed since then.

Now Democrats justify the burning of the American flag and condone the kneeling of people during the playing of the national anthem.

Now Democrats openly invite illegal aliens to cross our borders and have sanctuary cities protecting them from deportation.

Now Democrats want to allow late-term abortion and state their reproductive health is being threatened by attempts to overrule Roe v. Wade. Just what is their definition of reproductive health? Isnt it the ability to give birth to a healthy child?

The Democrats have vowed to do away with the federal death penalty. How can Democrats be anti-death penalty but be pro-abortion?

The Democrats wasted tens of millions of taxpayer dollars attempting to impeach a president for shedding light on the corruption of the previous administration. They knew from the outset they could not win, yet proceeded to waste taxpayers' time and money anyway. The entire time they ignored Hillary Clintons false narrative of Russian collusion and Joe Bidens corruption while in office.

The Democrats and their media allies decide what they want you to see, hear or read. Honest journalism does not exist any longer. They have been reduced to a propaganda extension of the Democratic Party.

I watched with disgust as the Democratic Party condones rioting and looting, refusing to employ the police departments of their cities in stopping destruction of public and private property. Kamala Harris, probably the next vice president, tweeted support for a fund to bail out protesters, some of them violent.

The Democratic Party has become the party of The ends justifies the means. They have already shown that they will turn a blind eye to wrongdoing by their party members. They have spent the last four years undermining the current administration. They have refused bipartisan support on nearly every issue the president has worked for or enacted. The Democrats have spent $1 billion on this election. You cannot convince me that it is for the benefit of this country's citizens.

Is the Republican Party perfect? Not by a long shot. It still has corruption and deceit within its ranks. But they are more in line with my conservative views and ideology than what the Democratic Party now supports.

Ronald Segrest, Jacksonville

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