To the Editor:
Re “The New Deal Is a Stinging Rebuke to Trump and Trumpism,” by Jamelle Bouie (column, nytimes.com, April 30):
In his first 100 days in workplace, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, my grandfather, inspired us to imagine in ourselves, to belief and assist our neighbors, and to place the nation’s stability and well-being as an entire on the forefront.
In contrast, the present administration has precipitated financial chaos at residence and overseas, whereas exhibiting carelessness and cruelty to almost everybody besides billionaires. The early success of a presidential agenda needs to be outlined by what it creates and never by what it destroys — the boldness within the American promise that it evokes, not the concern it sows.
All my life I’ve lived within the shadow — no, the glow — of the legacy of my grandparents’ management, beliefs and public accomplishments. I’m 77 years previous, and I hope I reside to see that legacy give rise to a reborn America that treasures the freedoms they enshrined: the liberty of speech and expression, the liberty the reside one’s personal religion, the liberty from desperation and wish, and most particularly, the liberty from concern.
Thanks, Mr. Bouie, on your clear declaration of what we should do and why.
Anna Eleanor Roosevelt
Embden, Maine
Reflections on a Wrenching 100 Days
To the Editor:
Re “There have by no means been 100 days like this” (entrance web page, April 30):
Probably the most dispiriting and surprising factor about Donald Trump’s so quickly and completely reworking the presidency right into a weapon of revenge isn’t what he has executed, however how he has been capable of do it.
He wanted folks with authorized data to clarify to him easy methods to exploit and circumvent our legal guidelines. He wanted authorities officers sworn to uphold our Structure to show their backs on their oaths and democracy. He wanted tens of millions of Individuals identical to us to help him as he dismantled every part that has made America America.
Authorities, international affairs and each side of our nationwide life from enterprise to tradition to academia to the media are being formed by a revenge that might have been prevented at any time, on each degree, by a folks and a rustic we thought we knew.
I’ll hold and protect this breathtaking concern of The New York Instances for my grandchildren and their kids. If this continues, they won’t imagine what we as soon as had, and willingly misplaced.
Greg Joseph
Solar Metropolis, Ariz.
To the Editor:
It’s clear that our Structure, remarkably resilient because it’s been, was not designed to face up to the kinds of perversions that President Trump and his coterie have subjected it to.
Every time (if?) we emerge from this nightmare disaster, we are going to want a stronger delineation of the separation of powers, together with enforceable penalties for overreach.
David Murphey
Philadelphia
To the Editor:
If the president is trying to inform the reality about what he has completed in his first 100 days, possibly he may point out the truth that when he began, America was thought-about the chief of the free world and now due to his ham-handed actions and belligerent posturing we’re not.
Michael Scott
San Francisco
To the Editor:
Even nonlawyers know what the time period statute of limitations means. In President Trump’s world, what’s the statute of limitations for blaming former President Joe Biden for any adverse penalties of a Trump administration coverage?
Nearly each attainable reason behind motion within the authorized world has a time restrict. Is there a time restrict past which this president will settle for accountability?
Gregory J. Stamos
Woodbridge, Conn.
The author is a lawyer.
Elon Musk’s Mars Fantasy
To the Editor:
Re “May Mars Be Elon Musk’s Subsequent Enterprise Enterprise?” (On Politics: Musk’s Washington publication, nytimes.com, April 25):
How becoming that Elon Musk has designs on billions — and ultimately trillions — of federal {dollars} for his Purple Planet fantasy. Constructing and sustaining a small enclave of earthlings on Mars can be a mammoth endeavor, even for the richest man on earth.
With an common temperature of minus 80 levels Fahrenheit, no protecting ozone layer, excessive ranges of radiation and an environment with one-hundredth the thickness of Earth’s, that is hardly an surroundings the place people can survive with out fixed and very expensive life help.
However Mr. Musk’s distorted dream is to create a Martian settlement of 1,000,000 folks. The truth that he views this inhospitable planet as a attainable human sanctuary is a mirrored image of how disdainful he’s of our personal planet’s extraordinary items.
This can be a man who, collectively along with his boss within the White Home, has executed greater than every other human to strip away measures defending Earth’s habitability. From decimating meals assist and important medical care to trashing efforts to guard our international local weather, he’s complicit in among the most cynical authorities maneuvers in U.S. historical past.
Philip Warburg
Newton, Mass.
The author is the creator of books and articles about environmental justice and international sustainability.
Lab Animals’ Merciless Destiny
To the Editor:
Re “Lab Animals Euthanized as White Home Slashes Analysis Funding” (information article, April 30):
Experimenters lamenting that they must euthanize animals in publicly funded laboratories are pretending that they’d have had a unique destiny. Animals don’t make it out of laboratories alive, with few exceptions. And earlier than they’re killed, they reside in concern in steel cages and are burned, brain-damaged, lower open, blinded, poisoned or endure different horrors.
The experimenters are much less involved about saving animals’ lives than about saving their very own funding.
The Nationwide Institutes of Well being has been handing out $23 billion a yr for experiments on animals that don’t assist people, and this must cease. Superior, human-relevant strategies — together with organs on chips, A.I. and checks utilizing human tissues taken throughout medical procedures — supply actual hope and eradicate the necessity to harm or kill animals in any respect.
Katherine V. Roe
Salisbury, Md.
The author is a chief scientist on the Laboratory Investigations Division, Folks for the Moral Remedy of Animals.
Get Large Cash Out of Politics
To the Editor:
Re “‘Don’t Be Afraid of a Struggle’” (Spherical Desk, Opinion, April 25):
This dialog about the way forward for the Democratic Get together with 4 veteran strategists and reformers doesn’t point out getting large cash out of politics.
Giant marketing campaign contributions from the super-wealthy give them a massively outsized affect over politicians and what authorities does, usually to the drawback of bizarre folks.
When one billionaire should purchase extra political speech than tens of tens of millions of bizarre folks mixed, we now have a caricature of democracy.
Richard Barsanti
Western Springs, Sick.
