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Issue Date: 8/9/2023
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Editor,

Wow. Listening to our TV news coverage trying to make sense of our political situation today is getting downright boring and repetitive.

I have a suggestion: let’s all just relax, and let Donald Trump be the Republican candidate for president.

We now live with the presidential election results which we will have deserved. Then on we go as a nation which has just demonstrated, once again, how our so-called “human nature advancements” are playing out.

Bob McClellan

Missoula