Letter to the editor: If not 'extremists,' what are MAGA Republicans?

Carolyn Thomson’s letter “MAGA Republicans not extremists” (Sept. 8, TribLIVE) implores readers not to portray MAGA Republicans as “extremists,” “terrorists” or “neo-fascists.” I find this hard to do given 1,000 or so MAGA Republicans stormed the Capitol in the hope of overturning a free and fair election, but OK — if they aren’t “extremists,” what are they?

Thomson says she is anti-crime, but what about the messiah of her political cult? The FBI search of Mar-A-Lago proved President Donald Trump had documents belonging to the American people (regardless of how the Trump-appointed judge has seen fit to run interference for him). Thomson later invokes the ghosts of the Holocaust to defend her position. Strange, I seem to remember a group of privileged white men , marching through Charlottesville, Va., shouting “Jews will not replace us.” Trump later called them “good people.”

How about I call MAGA supporters “hypocrites” then? Is that politically correct enough for you?

Kris Weinschenker

Youngstown