Mitch McConnell, the Senate majority leader, should have recused himself from taking the oath of impartiality in the Senate on Jan. 16, but he didn’t.
Given his professed position that he will be conducting the Senate impeachment trial only with the full cooperation and coordination with the White House, how is anyone to believe that his oath of impartiality has any real meaning?
What are we supposed to tell our children and the younger generations about the meanings of the fundamental democratic ideas about truth, honesty, oaths, impartiality and justice? Has the Trump era ushered in a level of hypocrisy and corrupted our fundamental notions of language and civil discourse that the damage to our civil society is beyond repair?
Alan Kanner
Amherst