To the Editor:
Re “Autocratic Tone Intensifies Fears of Trump’s Plans” (entrance web page, Nov. 21):
I applaud former Protection Secretary Chuck Hagel and former Gov. John Kasich, each Republicans, for denouncing Donald Trump’s authoritarian language and ambitions.
It’s incumbent on different outstanding Republicans to resign Mr. Trump and state that he’s not match to function president.
As acknowledged within the article, a latest survey “discovered that 38 % of Individuals supported having a president ‘keen to interrupt some guidelines’ to ‘set issues proper’ with the nation. Amongst Republicans surveyed, 48 % backed that view.”
This view is surprising. Republican leaders have a duty to coach voters and assist change this angle.
It’s crucial that each one Individuals actively promote and assist democracy in opposition to threats each overseas and home.
James H. Mills
Cumberland Heart, Maine
To the Editor:
As horrifying as it’s to think about this man being elected once more, we should additionally handle this problem: Ought to Donald Trump not win, would he once more attempt to overturn the outcomes of the election and name on his supporters to storm the Capitol?
Can the nation afford to undergo this once more? I feel not.
Donald Trump is so unhinged and delusional that nothing would cease him from denying the election outcomes as soon as once more and attempting to cease Congress from certifying the outcomes. This problem needs to be entrance and middle as considered one of too-many-to-count causes that this man needs to be stopped!
Robin Kroopnick
Branford, Conn.
To the Editor:
Re “The Roots of Trump’s Rage,” by Thomas B. Edsall (Opinion visitor essay, nytimes.com, Nov. 22):
What’s the purpose of analyzing Donald Trump’s psyche to search out out why he seethes with hate? It’s much more essential to know simply why that hate finds prepared buy amongst such a big swath of the voters.
In accordance with a CNN ballot taken in July, practically 70 % of Republicans and Republican-leaning independents consider the blatant lie that Mr. Trump gained the 2020 election. We now have no cause to suspect that this determine has diminished considerably since then.
However why is that? We don’t reside in a totalitarian state — a minimum of, not but. Nobody is forcing these voters to just accept that lie or watch it amplified on Fox Information. They freely select to take action.
Like all crafty demagogues, Mr. Trump mirrors and mobilizes the latent hatred in his die-hard supporters, who view his many character defects as virtues. With out them, he could be nothing. There lie the actual roots of his rage.
Bryan L. Tucker
Boston
Professional-Palestinian College students on Campus
To the Editor:
Re “Contained in the Group Protesting for Palestine Throughout Faculty Campuses” (information article, Nov. 22):
Brandeis, Columbia and George Washington College are lacking a priceless educating alternative by banning or suspending College students for Justice in Palestine.
They’d be higher served by inviting representatives from the group to fulfill with representatives from pro-Israel and different pupil teams to work collectively brainstorming options. The boards would come with professors and different professionals with priceless experience. It could be guided by mediators.
The objective could be to work on options as a substitute of calls for. Though the boards would have little instant affect, they’d train and publicize alternate options to the intense partisanship so prevalent as we speak.
Fox Information and extremist Republicans are utilizing pro-Palestinian pupil demonstrations to slant fashionable opinion in opposition to protesting college students and liberal establishments whereas setting examples themselves in vitriol and excessive partisanship.
As a counterweight, universities must reaffirm their position of getting ready college students to be trustworthy, open-minded and considerate leaders. It’s time to raise the educating of mediation each in our schools and our excessive faculties.
Compromise and dealing collectively regardless of variations are key to profitable democracies, and vesting college students with tasks tends to make them extra accountable.
John Pappenheimer
Hadley, Mass.
To the Editor:
In fact, the ways of College students for Justice in Palestine “can provoke discomfort” on school campuses. So what? Though some S.J.P. ways, reminiscent of impeding pupil entry to lessons, are unacceptable, discomfort is inevitable in establishments devoted to the free trade of concepts.
Felicia Nimue Ackerman
Windfall, R.I.
The author is a professor of philosophy at Brown College.
Mideast Myths
To the Editor:
Re “Three Myths of the Center East,” by Nicholas Kristof (column, Nov. 16):
It’s ironic that in his try and dispel myths of the Center East, Mr. Kristof addresses the shortage of a Palestinian state with out mentioning that the Palestinians have rebuffed beneficiant gives of statehood and refused to enter negotiations with Israel on much more events.
In his omission, he propels the parable that Palestinians are mere victims who by no means had any alternatives to have a state. They can’t proceed to refuse to barter and settle for these gives and nonetheless complain about being stateless.
Mark Misener
New York
When a Case Is Closed, Let the Goal Know
As the previous head of a prison litigating part on the Justice Division, and in personal apply, I’ve given and obtained such “declination letters.”
The A.B.A. requirements may turn out to be a part of the Justice Guide that guides all federal prosecutors. As Mr. Bharara observes, all these concerned within the justice system, “prosecutors, the general public and people being investigated,” would profit from this small little bit of grace by the federal government.
Steven P. Solow
Washington
Charles Peters and Neoliberalism
To the Editor:
Re “Charles Peters, Founding father of The Washington Month-to-month, Is Useless at 96” (obituary, Nov. 25):
Although the obituary was beneficiant and informative, it ought to have defined to readers that Mr. Peters’s use of the time period “neoliberalism” to explain the journal’s political philosophy within the early Eighties was practically the other of what that phrase would later come to imply.
Neoliberalism as we speak connotes market fundamentalism — the assumption that authorities intervention within the financial system is basically counterproductive and antithetical to progress and prosperity. Mr. Peters, against this, vigorously defended robust regulation of company habits and different actions by authorities geared toward giving common Individuals a leg up economically.
Whereas he was definitely — certainly famously — essential of some facets of conventional liberalism, he was no libertarian however, quite, a die-hard F.D.R. Democrat.
Paul Glastris
Washington
The author is editor in chief of The Washington Month-to-month.
