To the editor:

Ms. Stefanik:

You have refused to impeach Donald Trump. If inciting a mob to violence against the people’s representatives and democratic process (and also trying to get the Georgia secretary of state to commit voter fraud) isn’t reason enough for impeachment, what is?

I used to be very impressed by a person having a Harvard education, but your behavior in the last few years reminds me of a lecture my seventh-grade English teacher gave us back in the ’60s …

It was because of a girl named Sue, who had a brilliant mind but didn’t use it well. The teacher held up a big wastebasket. The wastebasket represented the size of Sue’s intelligence, but what was it filled with? Garbage. 

In my opinion, you have used your elite education and verbal facility to lend a sheen of respectability to a movement led by a selfish, lying, cruel, pitiable and damaged man. Then, clutching your pearls, you decry the violence that inevitably follows. It’s as if you’ve watered a garden filled with poisonous seeds and then seemed shocked — shocked, I say — when up it produces ugly, strangling, poisonous plants.

From your googly-eyed, adoring gaze to your snarling defense of his attempted international extortion, you have encouraged this man, his enablers and his followers. In order to further your own agendas, you and your fellow brainiacs in Congress have abused your privilege and taken cynical advantage of people who are understandably unsettled by the changes in our world.

You are probably too young to have taken in the horror of the Jonestown cult. I don’t know if you have lost so much contact with reality that you are actually drinking the Kool-Aid, but you seem to be gladly serving the poison to others for your own benefit.

Those of us who were raised Republican had initially hoped for so much better from you. Big mistake. Please attempt to redeem your integrity.

Stephanie Gubelin

Lake Placid