It was on Tuesday afternoon, July 8, that I discovered that I was irrelevant.

I am an 85 year-old former professor of management who was used to having their ideas taken seriously. I spent my career in Canada, but I now live in Cambridge. I am also British by birth, and a naturalized Canadian citizen and a naturalized United States citizen. Over the past year, I have published in our local paper six highly critical short op-eds concerning the activities of president Donald Trump and his administration (see Nov. 1 ; Dec. 1 ; Jan. 3 ; Feb. 18 ; April 11 ; and May 26 ). I also post and comment frequently on Facebook. Those postings have nothing good to say about Trump.

On that Tuesday afternoon, my wife and I were returning to Boston from a holiday in Europe. We had read a lot a

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