Jan. 16, 2026 5:30 AM PT
To the editor: President Trump didn’t anticipate an investigation of the Renee Nicole Good slaying earlier than concluding that she was a harmful left-wing ideologue whose capturing was justified (“Trump celebrates our nation’s founding while imitating tyrant King George III,” Jan. 15). Conservative media took up the decision. Now that message is on repeat.
The GOP has perfected the artwork of propaganda and the Democrats are nonetheless counting on fact-based messaging rife with particulars and logic. We’re shedding to propaganda. We will blame Citizens United for giving an excessive amount of energy to too few individuals and organizations. We will blame a reckless presidential administration for dishonest and illegal actions, however we can’t win by enjoying the identical recreation.
Democrats ought to preserve it easy and say it typically, and we are able to do it with out mendacity: “Federal brokers are attacking U.S. residents of their communities.” Easy. Truthful. We will perpetually debate Jan. 6, 2021, in addition to the video footage of Good’s brutal slaying. We all know that the Jan. 6 “protesters” weren’t peaceable and we all know that ICE’s aggression is riling up crowds and placing individuals on the defensive. It’s an age-old policing tactic. Simply evaluate footage of civil rights protests.
The founders didn’t must compete with gargantuan megaphones of politicized, unreliable information sources and social media spewing pro-King George III propaganda. We’re shedding floor and we have to catch up.
Bethia Sheean-Wallace, Morton Grove, Unwell.
