Letter to the Editor: Purpose behind conservatives’ behavior is made clear

“The Full Monty” was the title of a 1997 film, in which a group of men revealed all. In the case before us, the same is happening, at least metaphorically. The “denouement,” as if one were necessary, was made by Jonathan Swan, Charlie Savage and Maggie Haberman in a New York Times article dated July 17.

“Exposed” were Donald Trump’s and the extreme wing of his party’s lack of loyalty to our Constitution and the institutions that support it. He/they have made it clear that, once back in the White House, they together would seize the levers of power and run the government as if it were a dictatorship.

This bunch has no intention of protecting the tenets of democracy that we have come to know and love, including equality before the law, free speech, academic freedom, a market-based economy and immigration. Furthermore, any institution that tried to protect democracy would be considered hostile. As proof, one need only watch the goings-on in the House of Representatives, beginning with the crude attempt at blackmail over the so-called debt ceiling crisis and, later, the grilling of FBI director Christopher Wray as if he were part of a cabal whose only goal was to prevent the “Make America Great Again” crowd from getting back into the White House.

Perhaps the scariest part of all this is the apparent confidence held by the anti-democracy people that, despite their ongoing legal troubles and the bizarre behavior of many of them, they seem to feel their victory is inevitable.

Has their work on voter suppression, vote subversion and Supreme Court packing already done its job? Is democracy a corpse that does not yet know it’s dead?

Corpse, hell. We have not yet begun to fight.

Frederick Longacre

Hockessin