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Letters: Turn about is fair play for liberals

Demonstrators protest the election of President-elect Donald Trump in Seattle on Wednesday.
Demonstrators protest the election of President-elect Donald Trump in Seattle on Wednesday. AP

Grow up, America. Donald Trump’s trouncing of Hillary Clinton does not signal the Second Coming, or the end of the world. Just imagine how we conservatives felt over the past eight years, as we watched a radical left president and a feckless Republican Congress send our nation into second-class status.

The biggest difference between the left and the right is the left, when it loses, acts like a 3-year-old who didn’t get its candy, while the right sits in a corner as if it had been sent to timeout.

It remains to be seen if this new Congress will grow some backbone to match our new president, or if it will cower to the liberal media, the Hollywood elites and the far left nutcases in our universities.

Maybe this time our lawmakers will be willing to act on the mandate they have just been given. (One can only hope.)

Liberalism lives in New York, California, Illinois and the Northeast. The rest of the country is predominantly conservative. The liberal areas are the poster children for high crime rates, ghettos, drug trafficking and the great divide between the well-to-do and the poor.

Those whiners already out in the streets threatening to move to another country should just go.

Of course, then they wouldn’t have what they have here: the freedom to act the way they do.

Hubert Smoak

Cayce

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