Caledonian-Record

Had Enough of the Liberal Hatred - Jeffrey R. Delaney

Aug 12, 2025

“Had Enough of the Liberal Hatred”

To the Editor:

I’ve been buying the Caledonian-Record for as long as I can remember. And to be perfectly honest, I have no idea why. Other than the fact my better half enjoys Dear Abby.

I considered giving it up when it took the excessive jump from a buck to a buck fifty per issue, but I stayed loyal regardless.

In a country that is horribly politically divided already, I find it difficult to continue supporting a paper that consistently publishes letters, op eds, and political cartoons that are a majority MAGA hating, Trump hating and anti anything else that goes against what liberal Democrats want you to believe and accept. Just like the cancelled Steve Colbert nightly show, you’re alienating half your audience.

Hatred contributed to the loss in the election last November, as Harris ran on nothing but Trump hatred. She had no message. Yet the Democrats only message still remains “We Hate Trump!”

A poll just came out recently and the Democrats favorability rating is the lowest in 35 years. Look at the ratings now of CNN and other liberal news outlets that tell nothing but lies, misinformation and spew hatred. Even the Food Networks ratings are higher than CNN!

Look how many ‘so called journalists’ have been canned because they were nothing but biased, partisan ‘opinion commentators’. Look at the tens of millions of dollars ABC and CBS were forced to pay because of lies, misinformation and libel. When will liberal Democrats learn that voters are tired of this hate?

That all being said, I will no longer support the CR. I’m sure my $9 a week and $450 a year will not be missed. However, if 99 other conservative Republicans like myself ever decided to follow suit, perhaps $900 a week and $45,000 a year would send a message that hatred isn’t the answer the American public is looking for.

Jeffrey R. Delaney

No. Haverhill, N. H.

Publisher’s Note:

We sincerely appreciate your long-time patronage.

If you’ve been with us long enough, you know that for more than a century we were a Yankee-Republican, fiscally conservative newspaper. That shifted when the Republican Party we knew — of small, responsible government and fiscal discipline — was replaced by a movement embracing authoritarian tendencies.

You may also recall the many times we published letters from “liberals” who accused us of being too conservative. Today, we get the opposite complaint. The reality is that we publish letters from across the political spectrum because we believe in equal voice for all.

We also learned not to marginalize readers who confuse our independent news coverage with our opinion page — especially as social media has eroded objective truth, gutted local newspapers, and left people in ideological echo chambers.

We will miss your support. And when we disappear, our community will lose much more than a subscription — we'll lose a watchdog, a public square, and a reliable source of verified information.

For the record, our concern about Donald Trump’s leadership is not about party loyalty; it’s about democratic norms. His record includes:

·         Capturing the justice system through politicized prosecutions and intimidation of judges and lawyers;

·         Purging and politicizing the civil service via loyalty tests, watchlists, and removals;

·         Overusing emergency powers to bypass Congress on trade, immigration, and security;

·         Manipulating elections through extreme gerrymandering, weakening voting-rights enforcement, and politicizing election machinery;

·         Using domestic militarization for routine policing and threatening cross-border military actions;

·         Pressuring universities and civil society through funding freezes, punitive settlements, and licensing leverage;

·         Politicizing science by deleting datasets, blocking research, and controlling grant decisions;

·         Undermining independent media through defunding, blacklists, and legal harassment;

·         Profiting from public office through conflicts of interest, foreign gifts, and opaque schemes;

·         Weaponizing tariffs against allies;

·         Undermining immigration rights, including birthright citizenship;

·         Attacking diversity, equity, inclusion, and civil rights infrastructure;

·         Rolling back equal-protection enforcement;

·         Weakening social programs such as Social Security, Medicare, and student debt relief.

We believe these are not conservative values — they are authoritarian ones. Between the loss of local journalism and the normalization of such tactics, all Americans, regardless of politics, stand to lose.