I am a California Republican and I am in a quandary.

The fact that more than 70 million people with whom I thought I shared a common belief system voted for Trump proves I no longer know the Republican Party.

As a Reagan Republican, I am fiscally conservative and socially moderate. I am also an honest and a welleducated person who places character ahead of populist rhetoric and reason above bluster and tweet.

Trump’s attempted coup and his subsequent gutting of the GOP’s historical platform planks have confounded and disappointed many of us. That is why I now support the Lincoln Project, a group of prominent anti- Trump conservatives, and voted ( while holding my nose) for Biden.

Where Republicans like me go from here is a mystery, but the GOP of Trump is not going anywhere. Mike Post

Winnetka