To the editor:

True Republicans such as Ben Sasse, Liz Cheney, and Mitt Romney, to name but a few, were fighting for conservative ideas when Donald Trump was nothing more than a self-aggrandizing, vainglorious playboy.

They are now being pilloried by a bunch of Johnny-come-latelies for refusing to accept the baseless delusion that the election was stolen from Mr. Trump.

These interlopers are going so far as to demand that state legislatures pass laws to restrict voting, skewed, by the way, to suppress urban and minority votes. 

Their argument is that the very lies they are perpetrating about the election process have eroded the faith of the American people, so we need new, more restrictive laws to return confidence in the election system they are undermining in the first place.

This brings to mind the story of a family where the children, who when found guilty of killing their parents, asked the judge for clemency because they were orphans.

Bob Rottman

Little Compton