To the Editor:
Re “The G.O.P. Waits for Trump to Grow Up” (Op-Ed, June 30):
Nicolle Wallace is right that Donald Trump will not change his style before the convention and then the election. But the Republican Party has a much more fundamental problem by standing with him. Its unspoken assumption is that just about anyone is qualified to be president as long as he learns to behave like a president.
Even if Donald Trump ceases his racist, divisive talk and stops promoting his clearly unworkable solutions, he should have already disqualified himself. Anyone who is willing to use racism and fearmongering to achieve power is unfit, even if he stops for a few months.
Anyone who is willing to consider building walls at the border and barring people from entry because of their religion is unfit, even if he can rebrand himself by Nov. 8.
FREDRIC MASLIN
Fairfax, Calif.
Note from KBJ: I never cease to be amazed by the lack of self-awareness of progressives. Replace "Donald Trump" with "Barack Obama" and "Republican" with "Democrat" in the second and third paragraphs and you get the God's honest truth.
