The Issue: The controversial, pro-South record of a top aide to Kentucky Republican Sen. Rand Paul.
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Thank God that Sen. Rand Paul is not one of those weak-kneed politicians who will bow to pressure and instantly fire one of their staff for the wrong reasons (“Rand Paul’s Confederates,” Editorial, July 12).
Paul has more integrity in his pinkie than most pols have in their whole bodies.
If he sticks by them, then I have to believe it is the right thing to do.
In my mind, he still remains the only man who can direct us out of the moral, financial and cultural abyss.
Herb Eichen
Bayside
Paul must dump his social-media manager, whom The Post notes has “complained about America losing its special white character through immigration.”
Morally, Paul must not sanction judging folks by their skin color. Politically, Paul, as a Republican, will not be given a pass by the non-Post media, as was former Sen. Robert Byrd, a Democrat and former Ku Klux Klan member.
Mark Kalinowski
Clifton, NJ
There are millions of Americans who agree with Paul’s politics. There is no denying that many in the South see secession as the only way to get away from the rancid, divisive and pro-regulation politics of the federal government.
There are people in northern California and northeast Colorado who would like to secede from or split their own states for economic reasons. Even Staten Island has had a secessionist fervor, with some residents wanting to remove it from the Big Apple.
The reason this is even being contemplated, 150 years after the first failed secessionist movement, is that extreme progressive liberalism has run amok in local, state and federal governments, in our schools and in our own personal lives.
Americans are angry, and they want to be heard. Will our tin-eared elected officials listen and change their ways?
Lee Anthony Nieves
Charlotte, NC