Gov. Spencer Cox claims that the message of the 2024 election season is that “people are tired of being told that they’re racist or misogynistic or homophobic.”
False.
I think the actual message of the 2024 election is that character and decency no longer count for anything in politics, and that anyone still looking for those things in a presidential candidate is fighting a losing battle.
For myself and others like me who supported Vice President Kamala Harris, this presidential election (and the two before it) was entirely about character. Because I still value personal traits like honesty, integrity, courage, compassion, wisdom, fidelity and a sense of fairness. There was probably a time when the governor, and most Americans, would have agreed that those traits are characteristic (if not a prerequisite) of good leadership.
Nevertheless, a convicted felon and serial cheater who told one of the ugliest lies in our nation’s history in a blatant effort to overturn a free and fair election was just made president — again. And yet Gov. Cox thinks Democrats are the ones that should “look in the mirror”? Good luck to anyone trying to square that circle.
Jed B. Clarke, South Jordan
