Do you support this?

From the first days of his election, Donald Trump violated national norms that have tied this country together since its creation. Meanwhile, Mr. David Barham, writing for the editorial page, said nothing.

From the beginning Trump treated the institutions of the government as his personal fiefdom, and Mr. Barham was quiet.

For four years President Trump used the powers of his office to attack those who opposed him, while pardoning his friends. He rejected our great strength as a United States with his view of the Splintered States by favoring red states over blue ones. Still, silence from Mr. Barham.

This has continued to the present. In his speeches of Nov. 4 and Nov. 5, he demanded that vote-counting stop in the country that President Reagan called “the shining city on the hill.” He called into question the heart and soul of our democracy: the legitimacy of the election.

Certainly, Mr. Barham would find this, finally this, an obscenity too far. But all that followed were wimpy editorials that complained about protesters carrying anti-Trump banners and tweeters calling Trumpers uneducated fools. There was no mention of the president trying to delegitimize the election, claiming fraud by Democrats—in Georgia even, which is Republican from top to bottom— without evidence.

This is the most egregious act by a president during my eight-decade life, and Mr. Barham felt it unimportant compared to anonymous tweeters and protesters.

Paraphrasing Mr. Joseph Welch in the Army-McCarthy hearings: At long last, Mr. Barham, have you left no sense of decency? No sense of history? No horror of the damage done by President Trump to the fabric of our republic? No idea of what another four years could mean when there was no election to lose?

Is there no limit to what you would support if perpetrated by President Trump?

LARRY COLEMAN Little Rock