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Letter to the editor: A more compassionate Republican Party

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As a new “liberal/progressive” Republican, I believe that the national Republican Party must change and evolve in fundamental and significant ways if it is to be at all competitive with the national Democratic Party beginning in 2042-44, when over 50% of the U.S. is predicted to be “non-white.”

The national Republican Party needs to appeal more to groups that it has little appeal to now, and it needs to genuinely care more about these groups. It must do more to help the lower and middle classes, the poor, the near-poor, and senior citizens.

The national party needs to be against making cuts to federal government social programs that help people such as Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, food stamps, student loans and unemployment insurance benefits.

The national party needs to stand strongly against sexism and white nationalism/supremacy.

The national party needs to stand strongly in favor of the total equality of women, including supporting equal pay for equal work for women and heavily fining and imprisoning all predators who commit sexual harassment, sexual assault, sexual abuse and domestic violence.

Lastly, the national Republican Party must fight for the passage of a federal government national health insurance program/plan that is the same as Ontario, Canada’s program — one that will cover every American, but not the overly expensive and fiscally irresponsible Medicare for all.

Join me in trying to make the national Republican Party more humane, compassionate and caring.

Stewart B. Epstein

Rochester, N.Y.

The writer is a former Squirrel Hill resident who taught at West Virginia and Slippery Rock universities.

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