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THE WRECKING CREW In response to the Nov. 6 cover story about President Trump’s Cabinet dismantling the federal government, Robert Colyn of Salinas, Calif., noted that to do so was to grant “many of the wishes of the winning electorate.” But James P. McGill of Reno, Nev., wrote that cutting programs that help citizens “is not a quest

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