To the Editor:
Like the writer of last week’s letter “Same Story, Different Wording,” I too, look forward to the day when The Smoky Mountain News stops printing letters from David Snell.
Unlike that writer, however, my reason is very different: I look forward to the day when such letters no longer need to be written. That will be the day when Donald Trump and his cronies stop taking a wrecking ball to the American democratic institutions that our ancestors fought to create and preserve.
That will be the day when the January 6, 2021, attack on our Capitol is recognized for what it was — an attempt to violently overthrow our democracy. That will be the day when a convicted felon no longer occupies the highest office in our democracy. Until that day, I welcome letters, no matter how repetitious, from anyone who isn’t afraid to stand up and point out that the emperor has no clothes.
Bruce Buchanan
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