To the Editor,

Two Republicans have shown butt-backwards-to-reality with recent letters. Despite Trump’s campaign slogan, “Make American Great Again”, Republicans say that the U.S. has always been a great country. That is like saying a back-sliding church-goer making an offering after first beating up his neighbor to steal his paycheck is “a great Christian”.

Republicans also criticize government for keeping an experienced workforce to handle important work like avoiding corruption by following the law, instead calling it “the deep state”. That is like saying we need more n...