Letter: Utah will be better off without the Trumpian Orrin Hatch

On President Donald Trump’s election, David Remnick, editor of The New Yorker, lamented, “This is an American tragedy.” My memory of Sen. Orrin Hatch’s election in 1976 is not quite as strident, but close to it.Hatch’s John Birchish tactics after defeating Republican hopeful Jack Carlson and sitting Sen. Frank Moss mirrored the demagoguery of Trump. Hatch’s attacks on Carlson as told by his wife, Renee, in a book, and the radio debates I heard of Hatch and Mos