To the editor:
The front-page article in the Aug. 5 print edition of the L.A. Times regarding the future of Trumpism makes no attempt to define Trumpism other than by brief references to anti-immigration policy and lowering federal deficits.
If you want to know what Trumpism is and what it has brought us, you need to read, in the same issue, the articles by columnist Michael Hiltzik (“As COVID-19 pandemic tightens grip on U.S., Trump ratchets up the cruelty”), political scientist Samuel J. Abrams (“COVID-19 has been such a disaster even red state residents aren’t happy with Republicans”) and psychology professor Dan P. McAdams (“The truth behind Trump’s need to lie”).
Can someone explain what the Republican Party or the American people could possibly see in Trumpism that is positive or stands any chance of making America “great” again? No matter how I turn my kaleidoscope, I cannot make that design come into view.
June Ailin Sewell, Marina del Rey
Note from KBJ: Maybe you'll figure it out during his second term, June.
