To the Editor:
Re “Refusing to Exit, Biden Denounces Critics in Occasion” (entrance web page, July 9):
In his letter to congressional Democrats, President Biden not solely refused to confess or clarify his regarding ballot numbers, he failed to deal with particular challenges he faces: undecided and unbiased voters, partisans in Congress, and dangerous actors within the media and our on-line world.
He additionally refuses to see that many individuals in America are dissatisfied, regardless of all that he feels he has achieved for them. The poisonous swamp of lies and anger that breeds populism might drag him down, and all of us with him.
Most Democrats will vote for him finally if he’s the nominee. However Democratic voters are solely 27 % of the voters.
I worry that Mr. Biden and his defenders are making the identical assumptions about People that tripped up Hillary Clinton’s marketing campaign. They assume that everybody ought to vote for them as a result of they’re proper and good, and refuse to acknowledge an enormous swath of the voting public that’s (rightly or wrongly) turned off.
This indefatigable righteousness stands out as the undoing of us all.
Katrina Hill
Brooklyn
To the Editor:
President Biden has made it clear that he isn’t dropping out of the race. Now it’s time for all Democrats to rally and present help for him so we will defeat Donald Trump. You may’t anticipate the general public to really feel comfy supporting him if the information is continually reporting that some bigwigs within the occasion don’t. We don’t have time to waste with lower than 4 months to this extremely vital election.
I can’t consider that one dangerous debate efficiency has resulted on this quantity of doubt given the president’s nice efficiency so far. It’s time for Democrats to show this round and direct all this criticism towards Mr. Trump: how harmful he’s to our democracy and the way his psychological acuity is a matter as effectively.
The objective is to win the election; it’s time to circle the wagons.
Karen Tufano
Burlington, Vt.
To the Editor:
Re “President’s Technique for Re-election Falters as Focus Stays on Him,” by Reid J. Epstein (Political Memo, July 9):
There’s a vital ingredient of the controversy arising from President Biden’s disastrous efficiency on the debate in Atlanta that the media seems to have largely missed. Particularly, Mr. Biden’s credibility as a candidate has been undermined not solely by the efficiency itself, but additionally by the arrogance that many people have misplaced in his advisers within the wake of their defensive and ham-handed try and spin it as one thing apart from the fiasco that was plainly obvious to anybody who watched it.
For fairly a while, even these of us who’ve supported Mr. Biden have seen proof of his bodily and cognitive decline (albeit to not the extent that turned obvious in the course of the debate). Nonetheless, we’ve got heretofore been largely keen to miss that proof primarily based on what we believed to be the extremely succesful workforce facilitating the administration of his administration.
Within the wake of the talk, many people have been appalled by what we’ve got come to appreciate was the strenuous concealment by his advisers of the true extent of the president’s incapacity and their panicked, inept protection of his efficiency.
The time for Mr. Biden to withdraw from the race is now.
Michael Silk
Laguna Woods, Calif.
To the Editor:
Re “Disaster? What Disaster? President Rejects Occasion’s Bleak Outlook,” by Peter Baker (information evaluation, entrance web page, July 7):
President Biden is pitching himself all improper. He’s insulting the voters by making an attempt to persuade us that he has the bodily and psychological agility of a youthful man, which is visibly not true and subsequently an method that’s destined to fail.
As a substitute, he ought to assert his age as his best asset: “Sure, I’m previous, and meaning I’ve knowledge and perspective that’s unmatched by some other Democrat or Republican. It doesn’t matter that I don’t have the stamina I used to as a result of I’ve constructed round me a cupboard of youthful, extremely skilled individuals of brilliance and integrity who’re those that assist develop and execute my imaginative and prescient.”
His solely probability at this level is to dig himself out of the opening he has dug for himself by proudly proudly owning his unparalleled life expertise as the most effective motive to maintain him for one more 4 years.
Mark Ohringer
Chicago
To the Editor:
Re “The Case for …” (Sunday Opinion, July 7), through which six columnists wrote about who they thought needs to be the Democratic nominee:
This collection of columns is an ideal instance of why the Democrats can’t afford to switch Joe Biden: as a result of they can’t and won’t agree on one various candidate in any cheap time interval.
With the election a mere 4 months away, any change should be fast, enthusiastic and nearly unanimous. There’s a large danger to creating a change at the moment. If Democrats resolve it should occur, they have to transfer boldly and instantly, and I’m not seeing the Democratic Occasion being able to that.
Deborah Taylor
Santa Cruz, Calif.
To the Editor:
Re “Requires President to Stop Set Up Conflict Inside Occasion” (information article, July 7):
It’s good to remind ourselves that the latest election within the U.Ok. befell simply six weeks after it was introduced. In america, the Democratic conference, the place the presidential slate can be formally determined, remains to be six weeks away. After it ends, there can be greater than 10 further weeks of campaigning earlier than the election takes place on Nov. 5.
So there isn’t a have to panic. There may be time for Democrats to get it proper, to pick the ticket that may give them the very best probability of success in November.
Ellen Leopold
Cambridge, Mass.
Televised Remedy
To the Editor:
Re “Opening Up Their Non-public Lives on TV as if No one’s Watching” (entrance web page, June 24), concerning the documentaries collection “{Couples} Remedy”:
I’m “old-fashioned.” Whereas I’m certain Dr. Orna Guralnik is as empathetic and expert as described, as an skilled {couples} therapist I may by no means think about myself commercializing the struggling that {couples} deliver to my workplace.
Whereas it could be admirable to reveal one’s issues to encourage others to hunt assist, and her purchasers do give consent to be filmed, confidentiality is a bedrock of any therapy. Whereas there are widespread themes — battle about having a toddler, intimacy points, affairs — there are additionally profession stressors, parenting variations, the affect of main sickness, getting older guardian burdens, untreated psychiatric sickness in a companion, and so forth. Every couple brings uniqueness to their ache.
Important to any useful therapy is the therapist’s alliance with each companions, and a therapy plan primarily based on a medical prognosis that directs us to habits change. A breakthrough in a primary session is a rarity.
Most sadly, the problem of discovering a reliable therapist one can afford stays way more of an impediment for psychological care than for most cancers or coronary heart illness.
Sue Matorin
New York
The author is a social employee within the division of psychiatry at Weill Cornell.
If You Don’t Like a Supreme Courtroom Ruling …
To the Editor:
A lot to the obvious dismay of lots of your readers, the perform of the Supreme Courtroom is to resolve instances primarily based on the Structure and the legislation quite than to be a mirrored image of present (i.e., Democratic) public opinion.
In case you don’t like the end result of a call, the treatment is to steer Congress to go a legislation extra to your liking, not threaten to pack or delegitimize the court docket.
David MacNeil
Chatham, N.J.
