Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...

Today we are experiencing an insidious takeover of the United States government.

Anne Applebaum of the Atlantic noted that Viktor Orban was able to become a dictator by using the same methods that are being used against us.

Waking up every morning we find these items are being eliminated or cut significantly. Civil service, Social Security, the press, veterans benefits, libraries and museums, stock market, impeaching judges who don’t allow you to refuse to honor the Constitution, Smithsonian, Kennedy Library Kennedy Center, IRS, USAID, World Health Organization, sending immigrants to a notorious prison in El Salvador even though there are innocent, legal people included, EPA, Department of Education, DEI and many more.

Our world status has become untenable and disrespected by many of our allies.

My question is where is Brad Finstad hiding? He should realize that his constituents are very concerned about the radical changes these are having on their lives.

But what do we expect when we have an indicted criminal in the White House? How on earth has he been able to overturn so much with no consequences? Guess what? A congress who has lost their moral compass and is just letting it happen. Cover ups and lies are the name of the game, and we citizens are rapidly becoming the losers.

Carol Bertelson
Albert Lea