Letters

摘要

Iagree with your characterisation of some of the Republican candidates for president as the "new Jacobins" ("A dangerous game", November 5th). I would go further and suggest that the current Republican contest is more like a Robespierre sound-a-like competition than a process to determine who is electable. As an independent who leans Democratic on social issues and has mixed ideas economically I would like to see Barack Obama replaced in the White House, but not by any of the current Republican crop. The tea party has destroyed the credibility of the Republicans with its radicalism.