Ralph Nader’s Criticism of Trump

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/24/opinion/ralph-nader-trump.html

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To the Editor:

Ralph Nader’s listing of the myriad ways that President Trump and his administration are betraying the people for whom he claimed he would be “your voice” is stating both the obvious and the predictable (“Trump Is Hurting Regular People,” Op-Ed, Oct. 24).

But as far as I am concerned, Mr. Nader, Jill Stein and all the political purists who refused to concede that there was any meaningful difference between the major-party candidates they opposed surrendered their moral authority to bemoan the results of the 2000 and 2016 elections.

While there were certainly multiple causes for the defeats of Al Gore and Hillary Clinton in their presidential campaigns, there is little doubt that the presence of third-party candidates, especially in states where the election was close, could easily have been a critical determinant.

MICHAEL ESTEROWITZ, BROOKLYN