Letter: Trump and his ilk are the antithesis of the ideal of a pivotal speech from ‘The Newsroom.’ It’s worth remembering it.

Letter: Trump and his ilk are the antithesis of the ideal of a pivotal speech from ‘The Newsroom.’ It’s worth remembering it.

“We stood up for what was right! We fought for moral reasons. We passed and struck down laws for moral reasons. We waged wars on poverty, not poor people. We sacrificed, we cared about our neighbors, we put our money where our mouths were, and we never beat our chest. We built great big things, made ungodly technological advances, explored the universe, cured diseases, and cultivated the world’s greatest artists and the world’s greatest economy.…