To the editor:

In February, I spent three weeks in the Dominican Republic. Educated folks in Santo Domingo rightfully threw a few spirited jabs, "What the hell is going on in the US," they'd rhetorically ask, "You guys are like a Third World country in the throes of a coup!"

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