To the Editor:

Re “Mrs. Clinton’s Wall Street Blunder” (editorial, Nov. 16):

Instead of dodging questions about her Wall Street ties, Hillary Rodham Clinton should get out in front of this conversation.

The fact is that leading banks knowingly defrauded investors, ruined the lives of millions of borrowers who weren’t truly creditworthy, and ultimately failed to responsibly finance steady expansion of the real economy.

Wall Street’s failure cut away at the social compact, fueling Donald Trump’s (demagogic) immigrant-bashing and Bernie Sanders’s (legitimate) populist outrage.

Wall Street’s failure also hurt America’s standing in the world, and therefore our national security.