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To the Editor:

Re “If Trump Wins, Who, or What, Will Liberals Blame?,” by Bret Stephens (column, Oct. 23):

I can answer Mr. Stephens’s query about who or what liberals will blame should Donald Trump win the presidential election: John Q. Public.

Should Mr. Trump prevail, he will have captured the mood of a majority of American voters who countenance disparagement of “the other”; applaud vile language; laugh at lewd public remarks; support authoritarian and dictatorial policies; and no longer require character as a criterion for leadership.

We will have no one to blame other than ourselves.

Gregory J. StamosWoodbridge, Conn.

To the Editor:

Suppose, for the sake of argument, that’s it true, as Bret Stephens writes, that people are turned off by liberals’ condescension, name-calling, gaslighting, highhandedness, the politics of Pollyanna, and selective fidelity to norms and identity politics.

In that case, they might disapprove of describing people as stupid or mentally deficient; claiming that the economic success under Donald Trump was his doing and that the pandemic was successfully managed and that Jan. 6 was a peaceful rally; and suggesting that a particular religious identification is central to being a true American.

Mr. Stephens provides no reason to think that the factors he cites, which may apply to varying extents to elements within both parties, are more significant than the Electoral College, sexism and the other factors that he mentions at the outset, or the torrent of lies and fear-mongering about immigrants to which we’ve been subjected.

Richard FeldmanRochester, N.Y.

To the Editor:

Bret Stephens takes absurdity to new levels when he wags his finger at Democrats for “name calling” when you consider their opponent: the biggest school-bully, name-calling politician in the history of American politics, a.k.a. the Republican nominee. Donald Trump’s litany of insulting nicknames even has its own Wikipedia page.

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