Letter: No One’s Blameless

Then he veered off into the “extreme partisanship” that he decries in the first place, blaming the Democrats for all those partisan ills. While we can agree with most examples he cites, he completely ignores the partisan games that Republicans played while obstructing the Obama administration and the “alternate facts” they created in support of the Trump administration which led to the storming of the Capitol.

There is plenty of blame for both parties, but until we all can put extreme partisanship aside, our politics — indeed, our daily lives — will be infected first with emotions then with actions that will “make us sick to the pit of our stomachs” again.

Hugh Mensch

Southern Pines

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