Letter: A country adrift in a topsy

Letter: A country adrift in a topsy

Imagine a superpower led by a corrupt draft-and tax-dodging felon, reelected despite trying to steal an election in 2020 that he clearly lost. The country he leads is remarkably violent, with a homicide rate many times that of comparable societies. It leads the world in per capita illicit drug consumption. Its military expenditure exceeds that of the next nine countries combined, yet tens of millions of its citizens must go without health insura…