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In a recent Community Voices ("Principles in laws, platforms matter," Aug. 31), John Pryor puts his cognitive dissonance on full display, opining that his extreme end of the political spectrum is mom, apple pie and baseball, while anyone to the left of him is an evil Bolshevik.

Pryor paints everyone with whom he disagrees with a broad brush. He ascribes so-called "values" to all progressives and Democrats, proving that he doesn't know any. I'm progressive and I don't ascribe to any of the values he automatically assigns me and others. The only values that he and I seem to share is that America (should be) governed by laws, and that we are all created equal. As long as you are a Trump Republican.

The mental gymnastics that Pryor routinely goes through to paint former President Trump as an innocent victim, and the DOJ, FBI and other law enforcement agencies on the state and federal level as evil, politically-driven agencies, is laughable. I remember when conservatives were the law and order party. No longer. They are the party willing to do anything, and everything, Constitution, history and democracy be dammed, to stay in minority power.