I have read the Daily Herald for decades. I have found the local coverage of politics to be relatively nuanced and balanced with an almost earnestness to be fair. However, over the last several years I feel the national editorial content has been moving steadily toward a conservative/libertarian emphasis. Water E. Williams being a good example. I don't know if they are reacting to letters to the editor such as George Kocan's Sunday missive where he equates truancy laws with socialism, or if these are just editorial beliefs.

I stopped looking for any sign of shame from the Far Right a long time ago, but I would hope the Herald still has some standards. After some of this past weekend's content, I am not so sure. I reference the cartoon at the bottom of Saturday's editorial page. I believe the cartoonist is Cary McCoy. In what slimy universe Mr. McCoy is able to equate Pete Buttigieg and Justin Smollet and paint Mike Pence as a victim is beyond me. Is it because they are both gay and so they must both be liars and con artists, playing at being victims. Meanwhile Pence like so many on the right, preaches about virtue while ignoring so much of the vice that surrounds him.

I thought Saturday was bad and then I saw Sunday's guest view in which Hilary Gowins uses the horrid circumstances of AJ Freund's death to score cheap political points for the Illinois Policy Institute. This is vile beyond vile. I would ask, do you have no shame, but I am afraid I already know the answer.

Mike Vandeleur

Bolingbrook