Tired of the chronic trashing of Trump in The Economist, my brother just sent this letter to them. The analogy is interesting enough that I thought I'd share it here:

Now that you have ruled Donald Trump unfit to be president, you need to know that the people who voted for him did not elect a president, they elected a gunfighter. America has a colorful history of towns hiring gunfighters to clean out the bad guys and restore law and order. Just as Wyatt Earp was hired to get the Clantons out of Tombstone, Donald Trump was hired to get the Clintons out of Washington. So far he has accomplished three major goals he was hired for: (1) he prevented Hillary Clinton from occupying the White House; (2) he placed a conservative justice on the Supreme Court; and (3) he has reversed rule by bureaucratic decrees in favor of laws passed by Congress.

The answer to the gunfighter will not be another eastern elitist who knows what is best for the American people. It will be a Congress that does its job and provides leadership and a Supreme Court that enforces the Constitutional separation of powers in Washington.

The people who hired gunfighters often lived in fear of them and were anxious to see them go away once their job was done. That will probably be the case with Donald Trump. Until then, the Economist should be thankful that the Democrats’ progressive march toward global socialism was shot down. The alternative could have been another American tradition – vigilante justice.