Letter: What our country needs is day of reckoning — like what it experienced at the apex of McCarthyism

Letter: What our country needs is day of reckoning — like what it experienced at the apex of McCarthyism

As a former Republican Party precinct chairman, I chose to voice my strong opposition to Donald Trump in the early part of his first term as our president. I proudly posted a “Dump Trump” sign in my front yard for two years. Rep. Liz Cheney and her late father (former Vice President Dick Cheney) also defied the backlash of fellow Republicans by denouncing Trump as a threat to our country and our democracy, as did the four courageous women of the…