LETTER: Terrell conflates partisanship with citizenship

As a Democrat I am, in Terrell’s world, lumped with the bad people who perpetrate election fraud, attack religion, free speech, and freedom of assembly. I am also informed that I and my kind go around intimidating U.S. citizens in an attempt to keep them from voting. Topping things off I am responsible for any arguments that might ensue in Starbucks between customers and staff. As my mother would put it, doesn’t that just beat all!
The catalog of awful things I am responsible for in Terrell’s view is so extensive I began to wonder how I had found time to squeeze so much nefarious activity into my busy work day. It worried me too, what would members of my church think once they learned I had attacked religion?
Progressives are told time and again that we are mean-spirited people who lord our opinions and ideas over everybody else, that we hurt the feelings and sense of self-worth of our fellow citizens who must understandably lash out against us. So I’ll say in the friendliest way possible that Mr. Terrell’s articles are distorted, untruthful, and, in the sense that they turn fellow citizens against one another, hurtful to our community.
Mr. Terrell conflates partisanship with citizenship and has confused stoking division and contempt with patriotism.
Sincerely,
Michael Hill
Comer