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To the Editor:
Bret Stephens’s Jan. 14 column, “The Case for Trump, by Someone Who Wants Him to Lose,” is a brilliant summary of why we may be about to elect a buffoon with enough baggage to sink, one would think, anyone similarly freighted who aspired to high political office.
Millions of Americans are unhappy, frightened and angry. Privileges long taken for granted, like good housing and the chance for decent employment and advancement, are fast fading away. People want change! And the demagogue’s madness speaks to that need.
The same old, same old posture of the Democratic Party does not. What happened in 2016 is happening again, as once more someone from the old guard comes face to face with someone embodying the desperate fury of millions of people.
It is indeed, as Mr. Stephens so eloquently stated, time for those in the liberal establishment to pull their heads out of the sand. Thank you, Mr. Stephens, for sounding the alarm.
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