To the Editor:
Re “Bush Family’s Party Is Owned by Others Now” (news analysis, front page, Feb. 21):
Is the Republican Party now “the party of Donald J. Trump”? He’s supported by only about a third of Republican voters and is winning only because of a fractured opposition.
If he wins the nomination, it will be only because many of the primaries award all their delegates to the one who gets more votes than anyone else rather than a candidate supported by the majority of the voters. This is an inherent problem in the way we choose a president.
Republicans who oppose Mr. Trump still solidly outnumber those who support him. What really scares me is that supporters of Mr. Trump and Ted Cruz together might actually constitute a majority. That, then, really does speak to the mean mood of the Republican electorate.
MARK J. KASWAN
Brownsville, Tex.
The writer is an assistant professor of political science at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley.
Note from KBJ: What really scares me is that Mark J. Kaswan teaches political "science" to impressionable undergraduates.
