Dear Editor,

I was disappointed by Mr. Cohen’s column on his “Post-Election Blues.”  There were several flaws with his logic.

First, his reference to Trump supporters as a “cult” was insulting. In a non-religious context a cult is defined as a group with a misplaced or excessive admiration for a particular person. While many Trump supporters admire him, many of us do not, but we choose to support him nevertheless because of Benghazi.

Second, I did not appreciate his comparing the end of the Trump presidency with the end of World War II.  Mr. Cohen pointed out that Germany’s surrender did not bring back the 405,399 American soldiers that had died in that war, but ignored the fact that only about 249,670 have died from Covid-19 during the Trump presidency. Thus, Mr. Cohen’s math was off by 155,729 -- a significant error.

Third, Mr. Cohen lamented the fact that seventy million voters voted for a man who said there are “very fine people” on both sides of the Nazi issue. Mr. Cohen forgets that many Nazi’s made valuable to contributions to America. For instance, Wernher von Braun was a pioneer of rocket and space technology in the United States. Mr. Cohen engaged in a sweeping generalization, trying to say that all Nazi’s are bad.

Finally, Mr. Cohen was sad that so many Americans could vote for a man that clearly hates science, but Mr. Cohen forgets that science is not static. There was a time when the world’s foremost scientists believed the Earth was flat. Guess what? Many Republicans now think they were wrong. So perhaps science is not as reliable as Mr. Cohen suggests.

I hope Mr. Cohen will examine his assertions more carefully before he puts pen to paper in the future.

Sincerely,

Buck Arieu
Ward