Margery Eagan (“Who are the voters supporting Scott Lively?’’) hits the nail right on the head. No Trump critics survived their recent Republican primaries anywhere — not in Ohio, West Virginia, Indiana, or North Carolina.

I have long predicted that Donald Trump’s Republicans will be so soundly defeated in November that a presidential resignation, or worse, could be a real possibility in 2019. With Democratic majorities and leaders in the House and Senate, there would be no more love and adulation for Trump. He will not like it.

But as Eagan points out, there is a big hitch.

Progressive views must be brought to the public by messengers whom voters can see and feel as real leaders with the capacity and power to stand behind their ideas and make them happen.

We have some well-established progressive political leaders, such as Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi, and some sharp new voices, but not the kind a transformative figure with the kind of clear, credible, broad-based voice that is needed. A message of “Vote for us, we are better than Trump’’ is not enough.

Massachusetts and California are easy. We need Ohio, and West Virginia, and North Carolina, and Indiana, and all the rest.

Richard J. Bronstein

Beverly