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Trump's rhetoric must be challenged

Reading the editorial columns, watching Fox, MSNBC and CNN, I have come to the realization that apparently no one will say or write about the similarity to what Trump is saying and what was heard years ago in a country, far away, trying to recover from an economic disaster.

The words that identified specific ethnic and religious people as the problem. The answer then was not to build a wall to keep people out but rather having them to disappear.

Maybe it was only 6 million and not the 11 million plus in today's rhetoric. The need to have more and bigger guns to defend the perceived injustice or more guns to defend against those that don't belong. The idea that the present form of government isn't working because it defends the rights of those that don't belong or dare to believe in individual liberty.

We now have "The Big Lie" being supported by perhaps 20 percent of Americans and the possibility that more will succumb as the lies are repeated louder and louder more often and by more believers.

The RNC, DNC, the major faith leaders, the union leaders and the rest of the candidates need to sit down with each other and speak to the lies, not give them a pass or dare to espouse them.

Please bring civility back to the political process. A strong two-party system has created a great country that has overcome many internal and external struggles. A country that can show the world that we are great because we do not spew lies and hate.

Don't let one man again bring a country down using the media to spread lies and hate.

Fred Henning

Elk Grove Village

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