In less than a month, Northampton County Council will be seeing some new faces. County issues played next to no role in the election of five Democrats and rejection of five Republicans. The message sent by voters is that they reject Donald Trump, who just last night visited Mount Pocono to pretend that our economic woes are caused by “filthy, dirty, disgusting” immigrants. This reminds me very much of exactly how Hitler demonized Jews in 1938. He is also telling Ukrainian Presodent Volodymyr Zelenskyy to "get on the ball" and allow a Russian agressor to just take huge swaths of a sovereign nation, including territory still held by Ukraine. This reminds me of Neville Chamberlain's 1938 Munich betrayal of Checkoslovakia, under which the Great Appeaser allowed Hitler to take over that sovereign nation's Sudetanland. I'd agree it's unfair to hold local Republicans responsible for the damage being done by Trump. But our local press is dying and no longer has the ability to update you on local issues the way it once did. This is weakening our democracy and the result is elections that can result in representatives who in no way speak for them. As a result, Lehigh County has one Commissioner who refuses to participate in the Pledge of Allegiance and another who is facing charges of delivering a large amount of marijuana. Northampton County has an incoming Council member from Pakistan named Nadeem Qayyum. He's actually Muhammed Nadeem Qayyum but is apparently afraid to use his real first name out of a concern that it might incite Islamaphobes. He is unable to speak English and thinks Thanksgiving, established as a holiday by President Abraham Lincoln, is "myth and historic settler colonialism." He also is well known to Easton police. I'll give you more detail tomorrow.
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