I find the Barske letter both patronizing and myopic.  Enough demagoguery, please.

Mr. Barske fears a Trump presidency.  I fear a permanent duopoly in which a candidate can only participate in presidential debates - let alone win the Presidency - if they pledge to one of two parties, and those parties will always choose the more allegiant over the better candidate.  

Barske and his Chicken Little ilk have been writing these same fearmongering letters every election I can recall (since Eugene McCarthy was a write-in candidate) and our country is doomed to more Wall Street sycophancy, ill-conceived wars, and Citizens United until we all put an end to it by insisting we let more parties under the tent.  William Weld would have sounded mighty good standing up on that stage with Pence and Caine, and we'd all be better off for it.  .