To the Editor:
Mr. Fitzpatrick’s article of July 21, “The Mulligan Movement,” refers to the need “to focus our national discourse on the real challenges we face as a nation.” I would argue that the greatest of our “real challenges” is the interference by a foreign power in the rich democratic processes that have served as a model for aspiring nations for centuries. Indeed, both the Senate and the House, and other prestigious groups, are looking closely at this issue in a bipartisan manner.
Undefined references to a “Mulligan Moment,” and the angst Mr. Fitzpatrick stirs up with his rhetoric, do more to serve any foreign power that wishes us ill, than to protect our nation. Putin in Russia, Erdogan in Turkey, and Orban in Hungary, to name just three examples, must all rub their hands with glee at articles such as this for the discord they foster in the very democratic processes we should all be trying to protect.
Martin Buss
Greenwich
