We must win this war

OPINION:

“The only crime that I’ve committed is to fearlessly defend our nation from those who seek to destroy it,” former President Donald Trump said Tuesday (“Trump defies onslaught of legal attacks: ’A persecution, not an investigation,’’” web, April 4).

As the most profoundly successful American leader in generations is indicted by the Stalinist legal apparatus of Democratic socialist repression, Mr. Trump serves as a bulwark against domestic dictators and international authoritarian attacks.

There remains no doubt that Mr. Trump’s 34-count indictment proves Cicero’s age-old truth: “The more laws, the less justice.”

Even more, this gross injustice proves that America is under siege inside, outside and at our borders. We are also at a crossroads. Will we bend the knee to tyranny and live to witness our grand light of liberty forcibly extinguished by our own breath? Shall we permit pernicious plutocrats in China, Russia and here at home to plunder our wealth and pillage our people?

Mr. Trump’s resolve is the answer to these intense inquiries. We will remain opposed to the destruction of our democracy.

Republicans pledge retribution against the saboteurs of American exceptionalism and commit to reconciliation with citizens of common sense and shared patriotism. I submit to Times readers that the fury and ultimate resolve of our people has yet to boil to the surface of our national conscience. When it does, we will understand how to harness it honestly. We will admit the problems that plague us and rise to the singular test of repairing our republic and win this war. 

HENRY J. WILSON

Washington