Our household is waiting impatiently for Gov. Spencer Cox to flip flop again and reveal he won’t vote for Donald Trump after all. As everybody knows, Trump is as committed as ever to violent, racist, sexist bigotry and lies. He has no problem pardoning those who attacked the U.S. Capitol, assaulted police officers, and hunted members of Congress.
But Spencer Cox is “a man of his word,” and his vote is set. He has gulped the Kool-Aid of Trump’s impending transformation as a uniter.
No surprises, for our boy governor is competing in a race to the bottom with our bobblehead senator, Mike Lee. Cox and Lee are like pillows, leaving the impression of the last person who sat on them — be it their big-money donors, MAGA Republicans, or our tiny-minded legislators.
Cox and Lee are what they claim not to be: small town bullies who have no interest in other points of view or adhering to an ethical core, which, if they have one, must quiver like Jell-O.
Lee bills himself as a fiscal conservative, and a supporter of everything that shoots bullets. (He unsuccessfully pushed a bill to remove restrictions on firearm silencers. Opponents pointed out the obvious, that this would help criminals and hurt law enforcement, but the senator sniffed at such trivia.) His economic positions are, shall we say, fluid, depending on the audience. (It was that old, old man, President Joe Biden, who deftly revealed our senator’s hypocrisy on Social Security during a State of the Union address before millions of television viewers.) Years ago, Lee didn’t hesitate to sell out the bank that loans him money when it allowed him to walk away from his own financial overreach.
Meanwhile, Cox promotes himself as an empathetic listener. But, when it comes to getting elected, he is not above spreading misinformation, taking aim at kids who struggle with their identities, patronizing them and their parents in the process. Now he proclaims a convicted felon and civilly prosecuted sexual predator is on the road to reform and should be president.
Cox and Lee are all ours, our bullies, our morally adrift leaders. Utahns elected them; Lee more than once.
We have met the enemy.
Terry Orme, Sandy
