Letters

My response, Harry Mainzer, to your argument that Pete Hegseth is unqualified for nomination and confirmation as secretary of defense is: Let the process play out [“Kakistocracy,” Letters, December 19].

My disagreement with you is primarily with the faceless, anonymous sources that have been used to contaminate the fairness of this nomination. For Donald Trump supporters, it is all too reminiscent of the innuendo, lies and outright subterfuge of the initial Trump presidency by a Democratic Party and its complicit media, which abandoned its journalistic responsibilities to amplify doubt and falsehoods.

It is clear that you don’t see it from this perspective and are simply dug in to participate in “the resistance.” But your ranks are diminished, and the abandonment of your media resources by their audience should inform you that the nation is tired of being mired in a self-created quagmire, with all the missed opportunity to build a successful government that will move all of us forward.

The compelling evidence that I am right has been the shift in the international leadership’s embrace of the Trump victory and the recognition by our top economic entrepreneurs that they can finally advance the American economy.

Additionally, all the efforts to legally lynch President-elect Trump have been dismissed, except the miscarriages of justice perpetrated here in New York, which everyone can see for their partisanship and twisted legal logic.

If you are disappointed in all this, I hope that after confirmation, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. can facilitate the rapid development of the Trump derangement vaccine for you and others still afflicted with its symptoms.

Ed Surgan

Westhampton