To the Editor:

Re “The Trump Voter Paradox” (Op-Ed, nytimes.com, Sept. 28):

Thomas B. Edsall cites scholars positing the idea that Trump supporters have low tolerance for views that contradict their community values. The problem arises when these values are wrong.

For example, a community that believes that climate change is a hoax, that homosexuality is a choice and that evolution is not real is certainly not a community that I would wish to join. But these people vote, and when they join with others with like beliefs, a result is a disaster like Donald Trump.

If this happened in a small inconsequential country, the potential for damage to the world would be minimal. But this has occurred in the most powerful country in the world, where our misguided policies will affect hundreds of millions of people and threaten civilization.

RICHARD AMBRON, GREAT NECK, N.Y.