OPINION:
In his statement about the search of Mar-a-Lago, Attorney Gen. Merrick Garland appeared the very image of rectitude (“Is Merrick Garland serious about Donald Trump?” Web, Aug. 15). He said everything correctly, appropriately and prudently. He made me feel good that we have such a sober-minded person handling subpoenas, affidavits, search warrants and other tools of the legal trade. God knows I can’t sort these things without a lawyer at my side. But I’m still left with a damnable case of “whataboutism.”
You see, a picture displaces a thousand words, perhaps many more, and the picture of former President Donald Trump and some of his associates who skirted too close to the heat is far different from the kid-glove treatment enjoyed by Hillary Clinton and Sandy Berger, culprits from a different political party.
Unequal application of our laws is un-American, just as Mr. Garland noted, and as all of us have observed. Party-specific inequalities are rank, and like bone-dry tinder in a sharply split citizenry, they sow discord that may not be easily contained.
PAUL BLOUSTEIN
Cincinnati
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