‘We Can Listen To Each Other Respectfully’

Nov. 24, 2025 Editor, The News-Gazette: I was dismayed and saddened after reading Mike Lowry’s recent column. It was not the ideas he expressed, but its tone and spirit that disturbed me. He calls Democrats “dumb” and “liars” and President Biden “a joke.” He implies that for Democrats “calls for violence, shutdowns that hurt people,” and “the politics of hate and personal destruction” are now the norm.