When I was running for Congress last year in the GOP primary in Ohio’s 2nd District, I realized that almost every county Republican Party holds an annual “Lincoln Dinner” to honor our 16th president. Some counties have amended the title to the “Lincoln-Reagan Dinner” to also honor President Ronald Reagan. But the Republican Party in my home, Hamilton County, has taken it a step further. It has changed the name of this event to the “Lincoln-Reagan-Trump Dinner.”

My question is: What does Donald Trump have in common with Abraham Lincoln and Ronald Reagan?

At the end of the movie, Schindler’s List, Oskar Schindler, the German industrialist credited with saving the lives of 1,200 Jews during the Holocaust, says, “I didn’t do enough…I could have done more.” In recent days, I keep asking myself the same question, “Could I have done more?” This isn’t in reference to saving lives; it refers to saving the life of our democracy.

How local Republicans responded

Through interviews and surveys, The Enquirer asked 70 Republican candidates in Greater Cincinnati this year about how they would characterize the events of Jan. 6, 2021, and whether they would support Trump if he were convicted.

Only 20 responded, with all but one reaffirming support for Trump and in some way defending his actions during the Jan. 6 attacks. The only one to condemn Trump, Symmes Township Republican Phil Heimlich, has been one of the region’s most vocal Republican Trump critics. The anti-Trump message got Heimlich 5% of the vote and a sixth-place finish out of 10 in the March GOP primary for Ohio’s 2nd Congressional District.

CINCINNATI – In the mid-1300s, the Black Death became the most devastating pandemic in history, killing 75 million people worldwide (25 million in Europe alone). Differences between Christianity and Judaism led to the social ostracism of the Jewish people so, as the Times of Israel has put it, “People looking for reasons to hate the Jews didn’t have to look very hard.” A myth developed that the king of Tunisia, some lepers and the Jews had conspired to destroy Christianity by poisoning the wells with a concoction made of lizards, spiders, frogs, human hearts, urine and sacred hosts. The result was the slaughter of tens of thousands of Jews and the destruction of over 200 Jewish communities.

Several Republican former leaders from around Ohio are coming out in support of Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Tim Ryan as they condemn the actions of former President Donald Trump.

With November’s election looming, a group of Republicans are hitting the campaign trail this week. But instead of stumping for the GOP, they’ll be encouraging voters to back the Democrat, Tim Ryan, in Ohio’s race for U.S. Senate.

A group of five lifelong Republicans gathered in Cincinnati on Wednesday to call on Ohioans to vote for Democrat Tim Ryan over Republican J.D. Vance in November’s US Senate election.

On Don Lemon Tonight, Lemon aired a segment, in which CNN assembled a group of people of varying political ideologies to discuss President Biden’s Wednesday town hall. And one participant stood out from the rest. Phil Heimlich, a Republican who voted for Biden, aired plenty of grievances about former President Donald Trump, and the disturbing behavior he’s seen from those representing his party.

Heimlich’s first order of contention was with the fact that so many Republican lawmakers are trying to whitewash the reality of the violent insurrection at the Capitol on Jan. 6.

I’ve noticed a disturbing trend around the world: A leader is democratically elected and then gradually transforms his country into a dictatorship.

With the president now infected with the novel coronavirus, there isn’t much in this election year that can be described as “normal.” But among the most abnormal is that a group of lifelong Republicans — political strategists for Republican candidates for the last 30 years — have banded together to mount a rogue offensive aimed at defeating the sitting president of their own party.