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Beautiful, succinct and frightening. I have been a lawyer for more than 50 years, and involved in politics for longer than that, but I did not fully realize how close we came to the precipice last year. As a certain former president would say, “Lock them up!” And as another former president would say, these events present us with the question of whether any nation so conceived and so dedicated as the United States can long endure.

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Hi Jon. That your comment, with which I predictably agree, appears on this site, which of course I also frequent, though I only occasionally comment on Ms. Richardson’s estimable letters, is itself predictable. Best regards. Bob

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Hey stranger! Small worlds.

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Well said.

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