To the editor: Vice President Kamala Harris conceded the election in a well timed and dignified method, but many on the suitable should nonetheless really feel threatened by her. Why else would they proceed to personally denigrate her as Charlotte Allen did? (“Harris’ actual error — not bros, not Biden, not the border,” Opinion, Nov. 14)
Allen cites the Al Smith dinner in New York, the place she says Trump helped elevate tens of millions of {dollars} for charity whereas he “merrily roasted Democrats” and “Harris didn’t even present up.”
Whereas we don’t know why she didn’t attend, this was no merry roast by Trump. With the Catholic archbishop of New York near him, Trump vomited the identical toxic smears he used at his rallies. He on no account put apart the acidity of politics for a higher trigger, which is the purpose of this charity fundraiser.
As for Allen’s declare that the Democrats and Harris wished free surgical procedures for transgender jail inmates, the file reveals that offering gender-affirming care to federal inmates when medical doctors decided it medically crucial was permitted beneath the Trump administration. When requested about this, Harris stated she would obey the coverage that Trump adopted.
The massive crowds exhibiting a cross-section of People that got here out in assist of the vice chairman are a repudiation of Allen’s mean-girl tackle Harris.
Pleasure Rockport, Van Nuys
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To the editor: I agree with Allen that Harris made a disastrous unsuitable flip in the midst of her insanely quick and energetic presidential highway journey.
I saved considering halfway by way of the marketing campaign that this doesn’t sound good — her dissing again at Trump, shedding her lightness and her true self, losing time on the MAGA rubbish that the media have been glomming onto.
Therein lies the issue — the company media, the cash machine. As William S. Burroughs stated: “What does the cash machine eat? It eats youth, spontaneity, life, magnificence and above all it eats creativity. It eats high quality and [excretes] out amount.”
I too felt Harris’ reduction in her concession speech. Nonetheless, I want Biden had adopted by way of on his pledge to function a bridge to a brand new technology of leaders, implying he wouldn’t search reelection. It could not have been the joyful Harris who emerged the nominee, however I can’t assist considering (and I do know I’m not alone) that issues is likely to be completely different proper now.
However Trump continues to get what he desires and thrives on his merciless phrases unfold within the media. Bear in mind the bullies on the playground: After they stopped getting a lot consideration, they misplaced their energy.
Sadly, the monster is out of the field, and it looks like there’s no defeating it.
Heidi Santschi, Los Angeles
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To the editor: Allen writes that Harris doesn’t wish to “pore over boring binders of coverage papers and U.S. code sections.”
That’s laughable, because it’s recognized that Trump’s insurance policies come from the final individual in his ear and he doesn’t learn something longer than a number of pages.
Dave Gershenson, Van Nuys
