The Former Democratic Legislator Does Not Grasp Why National Democrats Are Wallowing

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A recent op-ed in the digital version of the Hartford Courant entitled “Ten arguments for accountability in Connecticut” by Ms. Christine Palm criticizes Connecticut Republicans for supporting President Trump while listing ten talking points to “earnestly to engage with Republican friends, family members and colleagues” while pointing out their logical fallacies.

Ms. Palm is a former State Democratic Assemblywoman who represented the towns of Chester, Essex, Deep River and Haddam from 2018 to 2024, the year she chose not to run for reelection.

She is 69 years old and married to the talented artist, James Baker. They have four sons. She worked as a newspaper reporter, high school teacher, owned a bowling alley and was once nominated for a Pulitzer Prize.

She is a wonderful person and her opinion must be respected. But let’s go over her ten points, which I abbreviate for brevity and give the Republican response:

1. Trump issued more than 20 executive orders on Day One, and not one member of the Connecticut GOP objected. These are the same people who freaked out when Gov. Lamont issued 26 executive orders, over the course of several months, in order to keep people safe during the worst public health crisis [COVID] since the Spanish Flu of 1918.

This would make sense if the Democrats did not “freak out” over Trump’s executive orders. But anyone who has followed Democratic Senator Chris Murphy’s response is aware that this is not the case.

Furthermore, Republicans were accurate in criticizing Governor Lamont’s executive orders as they did not lower the death rates from COVID in comparison to other states while having a devastating educational impact on children, especially minorities, along with destroying many small businesses.

2. As ICE officers begin to cull through Connecticut towns looking for folks to deport, the GOP remains silent about the fact that Trump deliberately detonated the bipartisan compromise immigration deal Congress worked out.

This makes no sense. ICE officers are enforcing our immigration laws. The fact that Republicans refused to agree to a “bipartisan compromise immigration deal” is irrelevant. This “compromise immigration deal” – if passed - would not have made illegal immigrants legal.

3. Republicans have conveniently gone silent about “Backing the Blue” since Trump’s pardon of the Jan. 6 rioters whose actions resulted in the injury of 140 U.S. Capitol and D.C. Municipal Police Officers and led to the deaths of five others.

Here Ms. Palm has a significant point. President Trump should not have pardoned violent offenders in the Jan. 6 riots. But Ms. Palm fails to mention that an unarmed woman, Ashley Babbitt was murdered by Officer Michael Byrd. Not only was Byrd not charged with this crime, but he was promoted and then retired with a generous pension. Perhaps President Trump believed these injustices cancelled out.

4. Connecticut GOP elected officials are not objecting to Trump’s description of the insurrectionists as “hostages.”

What Ms. Palm fails to mention is that many of the so-called insurrectionists who were imprisoned committed no violence or property damage but merely entered the Capitol building. But aggressive prosecutors coerced them into taking unfair plea deals rather than being bankrupted by high legal bills while risking the wrath of a Trump-hating Washington D.C. jury.

Furthermore, the FBI has now admitted that Confidential Information Sources (in other words “spies”) attended this rally, a charge the FBI previously denied. Did some of these FBI-hires goad protestors into entering the Capitol? This is still being investigated.

5. As Trump threatens to abolish — or severely limit — the resources available to FEMA, Connecticut Republicans readily accept FEMA dollars to repair streets destroyed in last summer’s climate change-induced floods.

President Trump has not abolished FEMA. Rather he has insisted that the money be used for natural disasters that affect American citizens, not used to house illegal immigrants as was being done in New York City.

6. How do they [the Republicans] explain the incompetence, lack of experience, and blatant conflicts of interest of Pete Hegseth, Robert Kennedy Jr. and Lee Zeldin, to name but a few of Trump’s most egregious cabinet choices?

The President has the right to choose his cabinet. Time will tell whether they are competent or not. Furthermore, Ms. Palm fails to mention that the Democrats under President Biden voted to confirm this “woman” whose seafaring skills were not properly vetted.

7. Trump has tied federal highway funds to our birth rate (aka pro-choice stance); our vaccine laws and mask protocols (which saved lives).

Ms. Palm has a point. But she fails to mention that FEMA under the Biden administration bypassed houses in need during the North Carolina hurricane because they had Trump signs in their yard. Petty politics is a two-way street.

8. It seems likely that at least some of Connecticut’s GOP have a parent or grandparent who fought in WWII. If so, how do they think that forebear would feel about a person close to the president [Elon Musk] giving the Nazi salute?

There is no patent on the “Nazi Salute.” Otherwise, these people would be in trouble too.

9. Because our legal system rightly convicted Trump of numerous heinous acts, the GOP has abandoned its former stance that “law and order” — must be respected at all costs.

“Rightly convicted”? The cases against President Trump were of dubious legal validity:

FBI agents stormed his house carrying automatic weapons with orders to use “deadly force if necessary” and sorted through his wife’s underwear looking for executive documents he arguably had the right to have.

A prosecutor in Georgia accused Trump of trying to find extra votes and then used the taxpayer money released to prosecute the case to hire her lover, go on lavish vacations and then perjured herself when she got caught.

A judge fined Trump for half a billion dollars for inflating the value of his real estate to banks to obtain loans even though the banks did not lose a nickel from non-payment.

A woman E. Jean Carroll was awarded a $100,000,000 judgment by accusing Trump of sexual assault even though there was not a scintilla of evidence the event occurred. Carroll even posed on the cover of New York Magazine with the jacket she claimed she was wearing when Trump assaulted her. The problem was that the jacket was manufactured after the date she claimed to have been assualted. When Trump’s lawyer wanted to present this exculpatory evidence to the jury, the Trump-hating judge threated to imprison the lawyer.

10. And finally, it would be helpful to know if, like Trump, Connecticut’s GOP caucus members will blame the nearest female, brown, Black, trans, non-binary, or disabled person or Armed Forces member the next time a helicopter crashes into an airplane.

Ms. Palm has a point here. Trump appears to have jumped the gun with this accusation. But a strange thing has happened since. There has been no significant refutation of Trump’s statement.

One of the three helicopter pilots was a woman, and her name was not released until days after the event and after all information about her was scrubbed from social media. And outrage from Black and gay congressmen has been decidedly muted. Perhaps they are more concerned that the air traffic controllers at Reagan Airport are qualified rather than DEI (Diversity. Equity and Inclusion) hires, since they fly into Reagan regularly.

Furthermore, the plane that flipped over while landing at a Toronto airport (fortunately none of the 80 passengers were killed) had an all-female crew. Where these women properly qualified or were they DEI hires? Would Ms. Palm board a plane with DEI pilots to show solidarity with the feminist movement?

The Democratic Party can roar back by supporting Medicare for All, increased taxes on the superrich, stronger private sector unions, replacing 401K’s with defined-pension plans and the repealing of zoning laws that keep minorities in poor school systems.

Fortunately for us Republicans, Ms. Palm and her party are ignoring these issues.

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