The Goldwater Rule doesn’t apply to this president

The Goldwater Rule is not a law, but a mere suggestion about how to act ethically (“The ethics of warning the public about a dangerous president,’’ Opinion, Jan. 2). Since Trump tosses out every presidential custom and tradition that inconveniences him, it’s time the psychiatric community pay him the same courtesy and say that this custom doesn’t apply to him either. We can’t all continue to sit on our hands and watch this (seemingly) preventable train wreck. He is unfit for office because he is a danger to not just the entire country, but the entire world.

Joe McFadd

Lancaster

Who will analyze the analysts?

The Lee, Glass, and Fisher article advocating “psychiatry-at-a-distance’’ demonstrates a disheartening arrogance masking a potentially dangerous opening for a Soviet-era misuse of psychiatry by the government (“The ethics of warning the public about a dangerous president,’’ Opinion, Jan. 2). “Mental health experts’’ were used to imprison many a dissident to a psychiatric hospital or gulag. Following on the authors’ advocacy, my analysis of these three is that they need immediate admittance to a Chinese-style reeducation camp, since they are trying to undercut our duly elected leadership.

But the actual danger of their fatuousness is to the electorate whom they obviously consider nuts for opting for a President Trump and not a President Clinton. Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?

John Kotelly

Arlington