Scott Brown appears content to live out the Trump years far from home and the daily grind of the current administration (“Scott Brown’s far, far from home, and he could not be happier,’’ Page A1, Nov. 19).

Brown’s sinecure, as US ambassador to New Zealand, is undoubtedly payback from our president for Brown’s early support of Donald Trump’s campaign. Though Brown once portrayed himself as a moderate, his subsequent support for Trump revealed otherwise.

It would be nice if our formerly moderate US senator were here so that he could explain to the working-class voters who followed his lead and voted for Trump why the president chose to endorse a health plan that would have left more than 20 million additional Americans without health insurance. Or why Trump now endorses a tax bill that would grant enormous reductions to corporations and people earning more than $400,000 while raising taxes on most working people earning less than $80,000.

Then perhaps the moderate Mr. Brown could explain whether he regrets endorsing a candidate who, as president, has used his bully pulpit to normalize white supremacists and considers those who protest against neo-Nazis to be equivalent to neo-Nazis themselves.

The one question Brown need not answer is why he’s enjoying himself in New Zealand these days. Based on what’s going on here, who wouldn’t understand the appeal of living out the nightmare of the Trump era 9,000 miles from home. The rest of us, unfortunately, don’t have that luxury. We have to live daily with what Brown and others have wrought.

Marc Springer

Brookline