One Party Has a Trump Strategy That Makes Sense
Hint: It isn’t the Republican Party. By Readers Aug. 16, 2023 3:59 pm ET Former President Donald Trump campaigns at the Iowa State Fair in Des Moines, Aug. 12. Photo: EVELYN HOCKSTEIN/REUTERS Your editorial “Democrats and the Trump Spectacle” (Aug. 4) says that Democrats “want the election to be all about the former President, all the time,” and “they want Mr. Trump to be the Republican nominee.”That, as you note, “isn’t good for the country,” but it is at least understandable: Focusing on Donald Trump has been a productive Democratic Party strategy for the past three elections. It is far less understandable why so many Republican Party leaders and voters are willing to go along with it. Howard Landis Naples, Fla. Kimberley Strassel’s “The Unprecedented Jack Smith” (Potomac Watch, Aug. 4) has conv
Former President Donald Trump campaigns at the Iowa State Fair in Des Moines, Aug. 12.
Photo: EVELYN HOCKSTEIN/REUTERS
Your editorial “Democrats and the Trump Spectacle” (Aug. 4) says that Democrats “want the election to be all about the former President, all the time,” and “they want Mr. Trump to be the Republican nominee.”That, as you note, “isn’t good for the country,” but it is at least understandable: Focusing on Donald Trump has been a productive Democratic Party strategy for the past three elections. It is far less understandable why so many Republican Party leaders and voters are willing to go along with it.
Howard Landis
Naples, Fla.
Kimberley Strassel’s “The Unprecedented Jack Smith” (Potomac Watch, Aug. 4) has convinced me: We need some liars’ prisons for the rash of forked-tongued politicians in Washington. Maybe put the most egregious fabulists on bread and water, too. After sending a few fibbers to the slammer, we may get a better grade of politician.
Lawrence G. Karch
Gainesville, Va.
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