Keith Burgess-Jackson, J.D., Ph.D.

Anyone with a brain knows the following. If Donald Trump is denied the nomination, his supporters (including me) will walk away from the Republican Party, thereby ensuring a victory for Hillary Clinton. But maybe the Republican establishment would rather have a President Clinton than a President Trump. I don't rule it out. Neoconservatives (such as Charles Krauthammer and William Kristol) are hopeful that she will carry on the nation-building work of George W. Bush. Lobbyists for big business, free trade, and immigration think they can work with her to get policies they desire. In short, Hillary Clinton can be bought and controlled. Donald Trump is autonomous.

Addendum: Pat Buchanan has been right from the beginning.

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To the Editor:

Re “Clinton and Trump Pile Up the Delegates” (front page, March 16):

We have witnessed the Republican political establishment repeatedly repudiating Donald Trump, rightly declaring that he is not a true conservative and seeking to scare Republican voters into voting for more orthodox Republican candidates. Yet Mr. Trump keeps on attracting a plurality of Republican primary voters.

Why is the explanation of this phenomenon not obvious? Even Republican voters have had enough of the do-nothing, obstructionist tactics of their current representatives. They have decided that it is time for another direction.

DAVID KRAEMER

New York

Note from KBJ: The letter writer has it exactly backward. Republican voters are furious that their elected representatives, for fear of being called "racist," have done nothing to obstruct Barack Obama.

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