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Dean Phillips: How to Regain Trust After the Biden Coverup
Dean Phillips: How to Regain Trust After the Biden Coverup

Wall Street Journal

time22-05-2025

  • Politics
  • Wall Street Journal

Dean Phillips: How to Regain Trust After the Biden Coverup

I appreciate your editorial 'A Reckoning for the Biden Coverup' (May 19), but I'm not the one who's owed an apology—every American voter is. Those who propagated the lie about the former president's fitness for office, and those who remained quiet in the face of it, placed their politics and proximity to power ahead of principle. The result was putting America at a crossroads. How can we be a nation of courage when cowards populate the most integral institution of democracy? This is personal for me. My father, Capt. Artie Pfefer, was one of 58,000 American soldiers killed in Vietnam, fighting a war in which he didn't believe but for a country he cherished. In March 2023 I traveled to Pleiku to visit the ground on which he and seven soldiers took their last breaths in 1969, five days after Americans walked on the moon. That paradox wasn't lost on me—within the course of a week our country was able to unify humanity, at its best, and destroy part of it, at its worst.

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