Why are elitists like Leonard Pitts continuing to insult decent Americans who support President Trump?

On Leonard Pitts

I would like to thank Leonard Pitts Jr. for his recent column offering such an informed opinion and judgment on all of us Republican “deplorables.” If we didn’t have Pitts, how would all of us knuckle-dragging, mouth-breathing illiterates ever know just how he and his comrades really feel about us? Unfortunately, Pitts is just one example of the many Hillary Clinton sycophants who are everywhere in the media, the Senate and across our country.

I am so relieved that Pitts took the time to point out the “fact” that Clinton was merely being honest when she labeled people like me as “deplorables” who are worthless, brainless zombie-like followers of President Donald Trump.

I also appreciate Pitts’ touch of creativity when he suggested that all of us who support Trump live in some delusional “Trump World” — a world, by the way, in which America is enjoying ever-increasing employment figures, rising incomes, numerous successful global trade deals and a skyrocketing stock market.

It’s amazing how Pitts and others of his elitist ilk continue to pat themselves on the back for being so superior to the unwashed mobs supporting Trump — yet at the same time these elitists are trying to win the votes of people like me in the 2020 elections.

After reading Pitts’ view of people like me, here is mine: I have never been prouder to call myself a Republican — and to call myself a Trump voter and supporter.

Kristine Reich, Prosperity

On Afghanistan

It’s time for America to leave Afghanistan now, and to leave for good.

Recently two U.S. soldiers were killed by an Afghan dressed in an army uniform; it was just the latest case of American military members being killed by the very Afghan soldiers we’re supposed to be training to fight the Taliban.

How many more American soldiers have to die before President Donald Trump does what he promised to do, which is to get us out of Afghanistan? Since 9/11 we have spent trillions of dollars and lost numerous American lives fighting a war that can never to be won in a country that does not want us there.

It’s time for us to just give the Afghan government all of the guns, bullets and weapons it needs to fight this war on its own — and to just get the heck out of Afghanistan!

Pat Clark, Columbia

On the Koger

Columbia has its own Titanic — and it is called the Koger Center for the Arts.

My wife and I went to see “Wicked” recently and while the play was great, the lack of women’s restrooms on the second floor of the Koger Center for the Arts was a major problem. In fact, things were so bad that the Koger staff resorted to turning one of the men’s restrooms into a temporary one for women in order to address the problem. But even that did little to resolve the issue: during the intermission my wife was the 25th person in a line of women waiting to get inside the converted men’s bathroom.

I spent more than $140 to see Wicked, yet my wife and I had to deal with this during our evening at the theater. The Koger is a nice event venue, but how is possible for it to have so few restrooms?

We will not be back.

Mike Osteen North Augusta

On Ralph Norman

A recent op-ed by U.S. Ralph Norman of Rock Hill began by referring to the House’s constitutionally-mandated obligation to impeach a president who may have committed criminal acts as a “siege.”

And Norman’s op-ed only went downhill from there.

It is hard to fathom how an elected official could fit so many misrepresentations and misleading statements into one column, but I guess that is our modern political world.

Norman stated that it was “striking and peculiar” that the Articles of Impeachment “passed the House without a single Republican vote.” I, too, found it “peculiar” that not a single Republican had the courage to vote for either Article, although both were clearly supported by the evidence, the witnesses and the legal scholars. And I also found it “striking” that while every representative of the U.S. House takes an oath to defend the Constitution, every Republican member chose to violate that oath during the impeachment process.

Norman was correct, however, when he suggested that we have been in the midst of constitutional crisis. We now have an outlaw in the Oval Office, and the Republicans’ cowardice has given President Donald Trump carte blanche to do as he pleases without the constraints of the Constitution or the rule of law.

The only way to save our country is to vote Norman — and the rest of his co-conspirators — out of office this year.

Luther Hendrix, Camden

This story was originally published February 10, 2020 at 4:50 PM.