Your headline“Trump’s first days a feast for the right’’ (Page A1, March 19) brought to mind the fable about people suffering in hell. They are all starving because they have spoons so long that their arms are unable to reach them to their mouths. The survivors are the ones who solve the problem by using the spoons to feed each other.

It is distressing to see that Donald Trump’s populist promises, as empty as they were, are being so smoothly overtaken by people whose only interest seems to be in helping themselves.

Recently I was inspired by a young man who called in to the WGBH talk show “Indivisible.’’ He said he was raised in a family where if you had more than enough, you were taught to make your table longer, not build a wall. We need more people like him in government. We need to make America share again, before it is too late for us all.

Ellen Vliet Cohen

Arlington