Marc Thiessen’s column, “Trump can win as the anti-chaos candidate” (May 12), is a blatant attempt to promote “Trump amnesia” — the phenomenon of people forgetting how frighteningly chaotic those years were, and how Joe Biden won in 2020 precisely because people wanted a calm, experienced hand at the tiller.

Thiessen admits that people’s memories of Jan. 6, 2021, have faded, that all Donald Trump can talk about is retribution for the past, that he still pushes falsehoods about the 2020 election, that he is in league with U.S. Reps. Marjorie Taylor Greene and Matt Gaetz, and the other crazies, etc.

All this should be enough to make Trump an unacceptable candidate. Not only did he bring the chaos during his administration, he’s still fomenting it now.

But Thiessen doubles down with other disingenuous claims. Trump did better than Biden with the economy? Seriously? All Trump did was inherit the Obama recovery, and then all he did with it was skim off the profits via tax cuts for himself and his rich friends.

Biden, on the other hand, came into office with one of the highest degrees of difficulty situations a president has ever faced, with the world (not just America) whacked out economically because of the pandemic, and then whacked out again because of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. And what he’s done is reduce the chaos to the point where the economy is again strong, inflation is going down, wages are going up, and unemployment is low.

Immigration chaotic these days? What amnesia. It was no different under Trump, who had a friendly Republican Congress in his pocket for this first two years and yet did nothing about immigration. Biden, faced with an oppositional Republican House, negotiated a bipartisan immigration bill only to see the Republicans renege on the deal they themselves had negotiated. Why? Because Trump told them to.

So it isn’t just that Trump brought such chaos during his administration that people were eager for Biden to calm things down. Four years later, Trump is still sowing chaos as a candidate. And Thiessen’s deliberate amnesia makes the threat that much more dangerous.

Jonathan Cohen, Farmington