Armstrong Williams (November 15: “When politicians call opponents evil, democracy pays the price”) expresses self-righteous indignation at Nancy Pelosi for a derisive comment she made about Donald Trump. While allowing that Mr. Trump “can be crude, impulsive and often reckless with language,”

Mr. Williams is unwilling to blame any of the sad state of our present political discourse on him. He obviously thinks Democrats are far more guilty of character assassination than are Republicans.

Fact is that Mr. Trump is often crude, impulsive, and reckless with his language. Worse, he and many of those in power with him do not hesitate to call those who oppose them Communist, un-American, and the like. They regularly conflate immigrants with criminals. Their rhetoric has no boundaries when descr

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