Letter to the editor: Missing the real Republican Party

As a lifelong Democrat, I never thought I’d say this, but I miss the Republican Party. It seems that most Republicans have transmogrified into Trumplicans. Some against their will, I assume.

Trumplicans are in full campaign mode all the time, pointing out what they see as failures, defects, bad policy and outright conspiracy. They are an aggrieved group with vulgar grade-school yard signs and angry denunciations of anything Democrats do.

Republicans used to do a little campaigning, but once elected, got down to the business of actually working to help the American people. There may have been differences of opinion or philosophy, but they understood they were being paid by the taxpayer to fix problems.

Trumplicans have no answers, only grievances. The current inflationary crisis driven by high fuel costs is a good example. Trumplicans have a list of people to blame, but they seem to offer no solutions themselves as to how to fix it.

There is no fuel shortage. Oil produced on American soil is owned by global corporations, who are making record profits by selling it at a high price in areas with oil shortages. Apparently corporate patriotism ends where profit begins.

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I am waiting for any Trumplican to come up with a clear and concise plan to end inflation caused by high fuel prices and offer that suggestion to President Biden, who would gladly work with that Republican, because at that point, he would’ve shed his Trumplican status and reverted back to a Republican interested in doing the people’s business instead of full-time campaigning.

With bated breath.

Thomas Nacey Jr.

Salem