To answer Paul Kengor’s question at the end of his column “Is Western Pa. home to a new Republican coalition?” (Nov. 27, TribLIVE), about whether the GOP can keep the “Reagan Democrats” voting for American values: I don’t think the Republicans can keep those voters and others who hold those American values.
In order to keep them, the first thing the GOP has to do is show these voters (I am one of them) that their candidates are capable of fighting for those values. So far all the Republican Party as a whole has shown us “American values” voters is a bunch of cowards who knuckle under to the Democratic tyrants as soon as they raise their voices.
The GOP must put up a candidate who has a spine and is capable of standing up to the tyrants, then muster enough representatives to get behind that person with a spine (leader).
The only thing the GOP showed the American values voters during the Trump administration was a cowardly bunch of representatives and senators afraid of a fight. I’m beginning to be embarrassed to admit I’m a Republican. I won’t give up soon, because I live for the fight. But it’s getting lonely out here!
Bill Herald
Venetia