Boston Herald letter, March 22, 2016 Adriana Cohen is wrong to insist that the Republicans are somehow cheating if Donald Trump goes to their convention with the most votes and delegates but short of a majority of either and loses the nomination (“Party can kiss me goodbye if front-runner shown the door,” March 20). To…
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Sanders and Trump
Cape Cod Times letter, March 16, 2016. Columnist Cynthia Stead is on to something, noting that many Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders voters have the other as a second choice (“Voters disdain government, politicians,” March 10). What they have in common is disgust at the preoccupation of politicians of both parties with catering to big…
“The Paranoid Style in American Politics” and Donald Trump
Cape Coral, FL, March 14, 2016 Everyone of a certain age who took history or political science classes in the mid-1960’s had an assigned reading list which included “The Paranoid Style in American Politics,” a book by Professor Richard Hofstadter, named after its title essay which was originally an article in the November, 1964 issue…
After South Carolina and Nevada
February 21, 2016 Following the South Carolina primary, Jeb Bush, the once prohibitive favorite, is gone from the Republican Presidential contest. He is a decent, capable man. (One must struggle to avoid referring to him in the past tense, as if he were dead.) What went wrong with a conservative and very successful two-term governor…
Why on earth Donald Trump?
Cape Cod Times column, January 22, 2016 By Brian R. Merrick In any normal campaign season the lead story might have been a former Secretary of State, U.S. Senator and First Lady poised to become the first woman presidential nominee of a major party. It could have been a successful former governor of a major…
Trump & Silber – No Comparison
Boston Globe letter, August 27, 2015 JOHN SILBER certainly had a memorably acerbic and ear-catching style of expression, but Scot Lehigh is wrong to equate him to Donald Trump (“Donald Trump is John Silber Redux,” Opinion, Aug. 26). Silber’s often colorful comments were grounded in a well thought out philosophy. Trump is a bombastic blowhard…
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