Editor,

In his Oct. 30 letter to the editor, congressional candidate Timothy Hazelo claims that it is the Republicans who are anti-racist and anti-hate and those of us who do not agree are victims of “leftist group think.”

I am beginning to think that the Republicans are running an affirmative action program for candidates who do not read newspapers and who are generally irresponsible and clueless.

By no means am I “left-wing,” whatever that means, though I must confess I do not like fascism very much, but anyone who has watched Trump’s speeches and his failure to denounce white supremacists or the right wing militants who were planning to abduct the governor of Michigan is unlikely to find Mr. Hazelo’s tirade convincing.

He claims to have the truth. Seriously?

Has he never heard of the Southern strategy where the Republican party has worked very hard to get Southern votes by playing to anti-Black sentiment in the South?

Or, has he never heard of Richard Nixon, who used this strategy extensively as has Donald Trump?

Or does he not remember the hatred directed by many Republicans toward President Obama, the first Black American president?

I am looking forward to a day when Republicans will reform their party and run candidates who are well-informed and show sign of intelligent life.

At this point, I am afraid that we will have to wait a long time for that kind of reform to happen.

Steen Halling

Greenbank