LETTER: In Trump team’s ugly rhetoric his mother is called a terrorist

To Ozaukee Press:

What is wrong with the people in the Trump administration? Their official spokesperson, Karoline Leavitt, said Democratic Party constituents are made up of “Hamas terrorists, illegal aliens and violent criminals.” 

My mom, who voted Democratic for decades, is not a terrorist, an illegal alien or a violent criminal. Statements like Leavitt’s take political exaggeration and hyperbole way outside the realm of acceptable discourse.

The Trump administration’s efforts to convince people that membership in the Democratic Party should be made illegal is part of a dystopian nightmare. How are they so blind as to fail to see how those efforts will backfire on them, and on all of us?

My mom is not a terrorist, and I will fight efforts to paint her as such.

David Taffet

Mequon