Letter to the editor: Reschenthaler should resign

Dear Rep. Guy Reschenthaler:

Last week, President Trump incited a crowd — that he had assembled — to advance on the Capitol buildings. Their conduct constituted rebellion against the government you have pledged to support and defend. You called what happened “reckless events,” as if we were enduring high school high jinks instead of a despicable assault on the rule of law. Your characterization is worse than pathetically inadequate; it reveals colossal misunderstanding. The president suborned this; his criminal responsibility is both proximate and substantial, and his goal was overthrow of our federal, representative, democratic republic. “Reckless” indeed.

The past four years have witnessed Trump’s erratic behavior, abysmal judgment, intolerable treatment of others, indifference to suffering, self-serving actions, self-absorption, and ignorance of history, philosophy and fact.

Yet you are a slavish Trump booster, supporting him, enabling his pitifully inadequate performance as president.

Last week you participated in the foredoomed effort to object to the properly cast ballots of hundreds of thousands of citizens, seeking their disenfranchisement because their votes run contrary to your interests. I cannot abide such arrogant presumption.

You are obviously in over your head. Sadly, you have demonstrated neither the maturity nor the judgment for the position that has been entrusted to you. Please, for the good of all Pennsylvanians and our country, submit your resignation statim.

Larry A. Clever

New Kensington