To the editor:

“The enemy within”…that’s what the former President is currently spewing in these final days leading up to the election. He’s not averse to throwing names out there to identify his enemies, particularly his former cabinet members, who were in the most strategic positions to know what a fascist threat to our democracy he is.

“The enemy within” are Democrats and RINOs (Republicans in name only) as he likes to degrade them. I prefer to think of them as Republicans with a conscience and decency. Why can’t or won’t the rest of them give up this obsequious pretense that he’s a legitimate answer to their party’s leadership?

“The enemy within” (an existential threat to democracy say the Democrats) is undoubtedly the former President. But he flips the script with his, “I know you are, but what am I?” routine.

I submit that the former president routinely displays every time he opens his mouth that he is “the enemy without”…without a truthful bone in his body, without compassion, without empathy, without common sense, without decency, without honesty, without a conscience, without anything that would make any thoughtful person think he’s competent to get back into the oval office.

And now the wounded, small man has taken to “working blue.” If you’re not familiar with that expression, it’s a comic who uses in his act obscene or profane material that people would not discuss in polite society. Check out his Arnold Palmer remarks in Arnie’s hometown of Latrobe, Pennsylvania, last Saturday. His remarks, like the man, were completely unacceptable and disgusting, unless you discount the smirking laughs from his vulgar supporters.

No, Dandy Don, despite his pronouncements of intelligence, beauty, grandeur, and any other positive human qualities, is devoid of any of them.

I chafed for my referencing the former President as Dandy Don. The original, beloved Dandy Don was an early Monday Night Football mainstay, Don Meredith. But I can connect those dots.

Whenever the Monday night game was decided, Dandy Don Meredith famously sang: “Turn out the lights; the party’s over!”

That sums up the former president’s political future.

Keith R. Klawitter

Morgan