To the Editor:
Re “This Election Yr Is Not like Any Different” (editorial, Jan. 7):
The editorial board deserves a monumental “thanks!” for spelling out in such element how uniquely harmful Donald Trump is. There was no misguided nod to both-sides-ism right here. This was the full-throated condemnation of Donald Trump that the info demand. The actions that Mr. Trump is overtly pledging to hold out would create political and social catastrophe.
Subsequently, the editorial board must repeat this unvarnished message repeatedly, matching Mr. Trump’s fixed repetition of his lies and provocations to violence.
The editorial board should additionally embody in future condemnations that the nation can’t afford 4 years of local weather inaction. Mr. Trump would give the fossil gas trade a free hand and completely squander 4 years which can be essential to speed up reductions in air air pollution and carbon emissions, and create clear power infrastructure throughout the nation.
The horrendous outcomes of a whole standstill in local weather motion {that a} Trump presidency ensures are too horrific to think about.
Gary Stewart
Laguna Seaside, Calif.
To the Editor:
Dire warnings a few second Trump time period from The New York Occasions and different media retailers are being ignored at finest and fueling the MAGA motion’s starvation to “personal the libs” at worst.
Many Individuals are sadly tuned out and exhausted from politics due to Donald Trump’s carrying us all the way down to a nub. The fixed noise and slow-motion boil of dysfunction have left a lot of our nation cynically apathetic to the hazard on the horizon.
Whether or not this was by Mr. Trump’s design or simply dumb luck is anybody’s guess. However this mixture of chaos and civic ennui is his finest ally.
I predict that Mr. Trump will win and all of us can be thrust again into the anarchy of his first time period, however worse, as your paper warns.
Miles Kahn
Queens
To the Editor:
It’s time to maneuver from opinion to motion. It’s not inevitable that Donald Trump would be the Republican nominee. We are able to all assist to disclaim him the nomination by voting for whoever is polling most strongly towards Mr. Trump on the time of the Republican main.
In New York, if you’re not already a registered Republican, you may change your occasion affiliation simply.
In the event you dwell elsewhere, the web site PrimaryPivot has hyperlinks to each state’s necessities. Some states permit any registered voter to solid a poll within the Republican main; others permit each Republicans and independents.
We are able to actually cease Mr. Trump in his tracks. Let’s do it.
Helene Presskreischer
Needham, Mass.
To the Editor:
The no-holds-barred opinion items in your Jan. 7 paper — the editorial “This Election Yr Is Not like Any Different” and Maureen Dowd’s column, “Time to Conquer Hell” — acutely explicate Donald Trump’s flawed character and the potential risks that will descend on the world if, God forbid, he’s elected once more to the presidency.
The truth that after all of the years we’ve endured his despicable public habits and utterances there are nonetheless hundreds of thousands of Individuals as we speak who take into account him interesting and match for workplace, necessitating the publication of such opinion items, is mind-boggling and painfully demoralizing.
Jim Bellis
Kfar Vradim, Israel
About Taylor Swift
To the Editor:
Re “Look What We Made Taylor Swift Do,” by Anna Marks (Opinion visitor essay, Jan. 7):
I’m deeply upset with this text’s interrogation of Taylor Swift’s sexuality. Although it started with helpful commentary on the evolution of L.G.B.T. rights in nation music, it devolved into pointless hypothesis the second it talked about Taylor Swift. Her sexuality is nobody’s enterprise however her personal — full cease.
As Ms. Swift writes within the prologue to “1989 (Taylor’s Model)”: “If I solely frolicked with my feminine associates, individuals couldn’t sensationalize or sexualize that — proper? I might study afterward that individuals may and folks would.”
Few of us would speculate so publicly a few good friend’s sexuality out of respect for his or her privateness. I see no motive this courtesy shouldn’t be prolonged to celebrities, together with however not restricted to Taylor Swift.
If Ms. Marks needs to interpret Ms. Swift’s music by a queer lens, then she ought to. In spite of everything, Ms. Swift’s expertise lies in her means to inform extremely particular tales about her personal life that all of us relate to due to their common themes. Nevertheless, sharing her interpretation of Ms. Swift’s personal sexuality has no mental worth. She deserves higher.
Amanda Wasserman
New York
Much less Polluting Vehicles
To the Editor:
Re “Electrify All of the Massive, Noisy, Belching Vehicles” (Opinion visitor essay, nytimes.com, Dec. 30):
Andrea Marpillero-Colomina is correct to emphasise the necessity for a nationwide framework to cut back emissions. She can be proper to focus on the influence that air pollution from all sources imposes on communities like Hunts Level within the Bronx. The place she errs, nevertheless, is minimizing cheap issues about electrical car infrastructure and ignoring the numerous trade progress on emissions.
In New York, 90 p.c of communities rely solely on vans to ship items of all types, together with meals and drugs, the supply of which might be delayed and costlier with no cohesive charging infrastructure. This isn’t simply an inconvenience for our nation’s truck drivers; lack of chargers and various fueling stations could have important provide chain impacts, finally affecting customers’ wallets.
Fortuitously, actual progress is being made — and has been for a while. Since 1974, clear diesel know-how has already diminished pollution by 99 p.c, and 60 vans as we speak equal the output of 1 in 1988. The trucking trade is dedicated to lowering the environmental impacts of shifting freight and continues to spend money on clear know-how, together with electrical autos.
In different phrases, large, noisy, belching vans are already a relic of yesteryear. Individuals want and deserve actual plans to construct on that progress — not flashy rhetoric.
Kendra Hems
Clifton Park, N.Y.
The author is president of the Trucking Affiliation of New York.
Unity in Canadian Hockey
To the Editor:
Re “Lengthy-Gone Hockey Workforce Stays Image of Nationalist Pleasure” (Quebec Dispatch, Jan. 7), in regards to the Quebec Nordiques:
I’m an Anglo Canadian Torontonian with some connection to the province of Quebec. My spouse is from Montreal, and we go to her household there typically. I really like hockey and my Toronto Maple Leafs.
I detest the Montreal Canadiens, as I do the concept of separatism and the appalling anti-English bullying and mendacity of the politicians who help it. However I really like the province, the individuals, the traditions, the cities, the gorgeous countryside and wild terrain.
I might like to see the Nordiques again within the Nationwide Hockey League. I wish to see a resurgence in French Canadian hockey. It’s most likely the one factor I agree with Premier François Legault of Quebec about.
I see it pretty much as good for Canadian tradition, not simply Québécois tradition. Hockey unites us as a individuals.
Nigel Smith
Toronto
