We are not going back

I have absolutely no regrets. Seldom an hour went by during the past eight years, when I wasn’t tormented and motivated to protect my country and the people who so richly deserved it. As a white man, I had failed them for too long, casually keeping the riches of my lucky privilege tucked away where it did far too little good, for far too few people. Our government failed us catastrophically by not rounding up the terrible man who attacked us, locking him away and pronouncing loudly and clearly: NEVER AGAIN. D. Earl Stephens is the author of “Toxic Tales: A Caustic Collection of Donald J. Trump’s Very Important Letters” and finished up a 30-year career in journalism as the Managing Editor of Stars and Stripes.