With respect, I must take issue with the letter of March 31 [in “The Readers’ Turn”] and, more generally, with the post-election editorial posture of The Epoch Times. It’s time to face reality and move on. I would characterize myself as a center/right conservative, and by way of setting the stage, I am in complete agreement with Roger Kimball’s critique of left-wing lunacy on the very same issue. Yet I submit to you that the response to an irrational left is not an irrational right. Donald Trump was a political unicorn, and I give him credit for both capturing, and in some ways creating, a mood of populist unrest in 2016. He astutely called out the establishment figures on both sides. But let’s look at 2020 with an unbiased eye: Trump lost the election primarily because of Trump himself; his temper, his ego, and his mendacity led to an undeniable …
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