Letter to the Editor - In search of decency

Editor,

“At long last, have you no sense of decency left, Sir?” Such was the question asked of Sen. Joseph McCarthy during a Senate Committee hearing he was conducting. The questioner was the U.S. Army Chief Counsel Joseph Welch, and, to his credit, it appropriately began McCarthy’s ignominious crash to the dustbin of hateful and unworthy politicians who have first earned our trust and then violated every aspect of their oath of office.

And yes, the same question could be appropriately asked of President Donald Trump. With him, the decency air has long been out of the bag. After all...