To the Editor:
Bret Stephens’s Jan. 14 column, “The Case for Trump, by Somebody Who Desires Him to Lose,” is a superb abstract of why we could also be about to elect a buffoon with sufficient baggage to sink, one would assume, anybody equally freighted who aspired to excessive political workplace.
Tens of millions of People are sad, frightened and offended. Privileges lengthy taken without any consideration, like good housing and the prospect for respectable employment and development, are quick fading away. Folks need change! And the demagogue’s insanity speaks to that want.
The identical outdated, standard posture of the Democratic Get together doesn’t. What occurred in 2016 is going on once more, as as soon as extra somebody from the outdated guard comes head to head with somebody embodying the determined fury of thousands and thousands of individuals.
It’s certainly, as Mr. Stephens so eloquently said, time for these within the liberal institution to tug their heads out of the sand. Thanks, Mr. Stephens, for sounding the alarm.
Paula Chernoff
Vancouver, Wash.
To the Editor:
Bret Stephens makes a very good case that Donald Trump was and is correct on out-of-control unlawful immigration to america, that the response to Covid ought to embrace a steadiness of concern for well being, the financial system and youngster schooling, and that many middle-class working folks resent “liberal elites.” Visceral response to this, nonetheless, mustn’t cloud People’ voting judgment.
Mr. Trump was and is dangerously fallacious about weakening NATO, which threatens the safety of our nation, and dangerously fallacious in dismissing local weather change, which threatens the safety of our planet.
He was fallacious on offering large tax cuts for the wealthy when the cash may have been a lot better spent on lowering our large debt and offering social advantages that assist folks assist themselves, reminiscent of free prekindergarten for working households and free neighborhood schools and commerce faculties for many who qualify.
He was fallacious on making an attempt to dismantle Obamacare. His stand on abortion usurps the free selection of girls and endangers them.
Most of all, Mr. Trump was dangerously fallacious in making an attempt to overthrow our democracy by subverting an election to retain energy in opposition to the desire of the folks. He’s unstable and unpredictable.
Arthur Pitchenik
Miami
To the Editor:
Bret Stephens nails it by theorizing, “If Republican voters assume the central downside in America as we speak is obnoxious progressives, then how higher to spite them than by shoving Trump down their throats for one more 4 years?”
Though Mr. Stephens needs Donald Trump to lose and admits that he “will spend the approaching 12 months strenuously opposing his candidacy,” this bias solely provides to Mr. Trump’s attraction to Republican voters.
Mr. Trump is positioned to regain the presidency this fall as a result of Republican and impartial voters are disgusted by the hysterical hypocrisy of the liberal institution and its failures to handle the true issues confronted by on a regular basis People. Voters will demand a return to the common sense Republican insurance policies championed by Mr. Trump. Depend on it.
Dennis L. Breo
New Smyrna Seaside, Fla.
To the Editor:
I’m a liberal who reluctantly agrees with a lot of Bret Stephens’s argument for Donald Trump’s attraction. Nonetheless, I’m struck by his evident omission: the position of racism in Mr. Trump’s success.
Mr. Trump’s political life began with birtherism, an overtly racist assault on Barack Obama, and racism has by no means been removed from the floor of Mr. Trump’s political life. Mr. Trump’s success was partially a response to President Obama’s presence within the White Home.
Until fashionable American conservatives confront the most cancers of racism in our nationwide life, they forfeit their seat on the desk of nationwide therapeutic.
Edward W. Merrow
Lancaster, N.H.
Freedom of Expression
To the Editor:
Re “Museum Cancels Massive Exhibition” (Arts, Jan. 13):
I write as a retired decide with particular liberal leanings who was disturbed to learn of the cancellation of the artist Samia Halaby’s retrospective exhibit at Indiana College’s Eskenazi Museum of Artwork.
Presumably the rationale for this motion was Ms. Halaby’s “social media posts on the Israel-Gaza struggle, the place she had expressed help for Palestinian causes and outrage on the violence within the Center East, evaluating the Israeli bombardment to a genocide.”
I’m a practising Jew who helps Israel’s proper to exist. My faith, my career and my political proclivities all dictate not solely tolerance but additionally love and respect for freedom of expression via the humanities. This motion by the museum implicitly rejects this freedom.
Alice Schlesinger
New York
Police Courtesy Playing cards
To the Editor:
The article about police courtesy playing cards (“Officer’s Profession Might Be Undone by Ticket Taboo,” entrance web page, Jan. 17) exemplifies what’s fallacious with present policing.
Regardless of the high-minded nonsense that “cops are brothers” and “the playing cards have been symbols of the bonds between the police and their prolonged household and mates,” what we’ve got in proof right here is police corruption, pure and easy. It isn’t a matter of giving somebody a move in order that they don’t need to pay a ticket. As a substitute, it’s a matter of a two-tiered system of justice.
If the police are going handy out “get out of jail free playing cards,” they need to need to account for them: who obtained one and the way usually is it used. Even higher, the cardboard ought to be one-time use solely.
Visitors legal guidelines are in place to guard us all. Courtesy playing cards undermine that goal. As well as, they waste the time of the visitors officer who makes repeated stops for no goal.
I do know that many cops must really feel that they’re privileged, that they’re centurions handing out favors. However this type of petty corruption is without doubt one of the causes some folks need to defund the police.
Richard W. Poeton
Lenox, Mass.
Home Violence in New York
To the Editor:
Re “Homicides and Shootings Fall in New York Metropolis” (information article, Jan. 5):
Whereas the New York Police Division deserves Mayor Eric Adams’s reward for decreases in crime, his administration is ignoring a brutal reality: Homicides as a consequence of intimate associate violence (I.P.V.) proceed to rise.
Intimate associate fatalities elevated by 29 % from 2021 to 2022, in response to a report by the New York Metropolis Home Violence Fatality Overview Committee. Black girls accounted for 41.7 % of intimate associate homicides, whereas Hispanic girls accounted for 36 %.
In the meantime, the sector that gives providers to survivors of I.P.V. and their households is in determined want of extra help, no more cuts. Supportive providers on the state degree are additionally in dire want of funding.
We shouldn’t be making laudatory statements about New York being the most secure large metropolis on this planet whereas intimate associate violence — particularly in opposition to Black and brown girls — continues to rise. Not solely does this ignore the truth of I.P.V. survivors and murder victims, but it surely additionally upholds a harmful fantasy that extra help for survivor providers isn’t desperately wanted.
Nathaniel M. Fields
New York
The author is the chief govt officer of the City Useful resource Institute.
