U.S. Capitol riot a self-inflicted wound, threat to democracy

A fortnight before the Nov. 3 general election, you published my letter to the editor, of my concern that Jan. 6 not become a day of infamy.

Today has become what I feared: a self-inflicted wound threatening not only the results of the 2020 election but also the congressional elections of 2022 and the next general election of 2024.

I left the University of California-Berkeley after the deadly riots of 1968-69. I hope the Jan. 6 riot ends peacefully for all concerned. There is nowhere else to run now.

Or so it seems to me.

Phillip E. Lothyan

Mill Creek