Letter to the Editor: What would it take for Ryan Zinke repudiate Donald Trump?

Editor,

Recently, with his poll numbers plummeting, and his pathway to legitimately winning the election fading, Trump suggested to his followers that there was a “Second Amendment” solution to Hillary.  “If she gets to pick her judges,” he said, “nothing you can do, folks. Although the Second Amendment people — maybe there is. I don’t know.”

For many on the right, owning guns is not just for personal defense but for the violent overthrow of the government if it “overreaches.”  If a majority of us, say, do something hopelessly unconstitutional, like electing Hillary president, “Second Amendment people” can exercise their right of gun ownership and veto what we have decided. 

Or maybe not.  Trump isn’t sure.  He’s willing to let his followers decide--you know, all those reasonably realistic people who believe that Obama is a foreign-born Muslim socialist, that global warming is a hoax planted by the Chinese to undermine our economy, and that abstinence-only sex education works.  It’s just a random thought he’s tossing out.

Instead of repudiating Trump, and all the incredibly racist, sexist and violent things he has advocated, Zinke is doubling down, insisting that “Mr. Trump has good policies,” even if he has “a big mouth.”

Instead of voting for Zinke, who has volunteered to be Trump’s vice president and is now trivializing Trump’s incitements to violence, please vote for Denise Juneau, a truly wonderful woman who knows that violence will never fix our problems.

Wade Sikorski

Baker