Editor’s note: This letter is a response to the column “These ‘audacious predictions’ may not be so far-fetched,” published Dec. 10.
I am a relatively new subscriber to the Courier-Herald, so I haven’t read many of the periodic opinion pieces written by Rich Elfers. Some readers say he is a “balanced bulwark” in these polarized times. Thus far, I haven’t found his writing to be a “balanced bulwark,” but instead to be more like a leaky levee, through which a muddy torrent of Trump Derangement Syndrome (TDS) effluent is released. To wit, I have “these audacious predictions that may not be so far-fetched” (to borrow the title of his most-recent column) regarding whether his treatment of the current administration is comparable to his treatment of the previous one:
Prophecy #1: There is no Elfers column that called into question the Democrat atempts to block Trump from appearing on the 2024 presidential primary ballots in various states nor one that points out the gerrymandering history of blue states, like Illinois and California.
Prophecy #2: There is no Elfers column that called out the Biden family’s international influence-peddling and money-laundering operation (China, Ukraine, Russia, and others) that paid the Biden family millions of dollars, and no Elfers speculation that this should be grounds for impeachment.
Prophecy #3: There is no Elfers column that noted that President Biden’s speech had become incoherent and rambling and he had become a fall risk. None that predicted that Vice President Harris would invoke the 25th Amendment to have him removed from office for mental and physical decline, nor one wondering why she had not done this. No column wondering at the lack of medical transparency about President Biden’s health, particularly the lack of cognitive testing.
Prophecy #3, continued: Elfers’ concern over military strikes is limited to the current atacks on narco-terrorist boats who are smuggling deadly cargoes to poison Americans. There is no Elfers column that called “war crime” for the August 29, 2021 drone strike that killed 10 innocent Afghan civilians (rather than the terrorists behind the killing of 13 American heroes at Abbey Gate during the Biden’s disastrous U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan), nor a column calling President Obama’s drone strikes (hundreds of them in several Muslim countries) a “war crime.”
If any of my audacious predictions are incorrect and Mr. Elfers did point these things out in columns of the past, give him kudos for some balance; I’d like to see those pieces. However, if my audacious predictions are correct, I will regularly monitor the leaking levee and may comment further from time to time, hoping to provide more balance on the opinions page. I hope the TDS effluent will not be hazardous to the mental health of our community.
Kristopher Galvin
Black Diamond
