Suffering from TDS

Poor David Eli Cockcroft, drunk on Trump Derangement Syndrome: My last letter on vote integrity was a “typical Trumpian performance.” Republicans are excoriated for their various sins. Odd, since I never mentioned the president (irrelevant), and never have been a Republican; they lean left for my taste.

I am a constitutionalist and an anti-socialist, which makes the Democrat Party the greatest threat to all I hold dear. Doesn’t make me a Republican, but one finds allies where he can. The difference between the one incidence of pro-Republican voter fraud he cited and the numerous times boxes of ballots have reportedly mysteriously appeared in heavily Democrat counties during recounts is that the criminal Republican lost his seat and was run out of town, while Democrats apparently pay no price.

Claiming verification of the right to vote is racist is an insult to our minority citizens. The ones I know are as capable of following reasonable laws to safeguard the vote as am I. Their votes are also diminished by illegal voting. So maddened with Trump-hatred was my respondent that he capped off his letter with one of the biggest lies of the 21st century: that the Supreme Court decided the 2000 election and cheated Al Gore. What it really did was stop the partisan Florida Supreme Court from continually changing the rules in an effort to change the legitimate result of the election. Newspapers hostile to George Bush who counted and recounted all the ballots after it was all over prove David’s point in the end that Bush had won Florida by a slim but real margin. Haters still claiming 20 years later that a Republican court had stolen the election from Gore perpetuate far worse and more damaging lies than the ones wrongly purported to me by the hater. KARL T. KIMBALL

Little Rock