To the Editor:
Re “J.D. Vance on The place He’d Take the Republican Occasion,” by Ross Douthat (column, June 16):
In his interview with Mr. Douthat, Senator J.D. Vance mounts an absurd protection of Donald Trump’s assaults on our electoral system within the aftermath of the 2020 election.
Mr. Vance says: “I feel the whole post-2020 factor would have gone loads higher if there had truly been an effort to supply different slates of electors and to drive us to have that debate. I feel it could’ve been a a lot better factor for the nation.”
Why? What “debate” was there available? Joe Biden received the election, honest and sq.. Can the shedding candidate now rewrite our electoral legal guidelines, so as to give himself a second shot? I should have missed that part of the Structure.
The irony is that Mr. Vance sees liberals as believing that “there’s no regulation, there’s simply energy.” Thereby demonstrating, as soon as once more, that Mr. Trump and his followers are excellent at one factor solely: projection.
Jesse Larner
New York
To the Editor:
J.D. Vance is right that it isn’t in itself undemocratic to problem the outcomes of a given election. There have been certainly voting irregularities in 1960 and 2000, and historians nonetheless debate the relevance and nature of those irregularities in the present day.
However no such proof of potential widespread voter fraud has been produced by those that insist that the 2020 election was stolen. Persevering with to press this declare, then, is antidemocratic. Mr. Vance is fallacious to insist that this can be a “very reputable grievance” that’s “truly a part of the democratic course of.”
Steven James Peterson
Irvine, Calif.
The Supreme Courtroom’s Fame
To the Editor:
Re “Thomas Took Extra Journeys on Billionaire’s Personal Jet, Paperwork Present” (information article, June 14):
We’re now glutted with tales of Justice Clarence Thomas’s corruption. Have we reached some extent of such saturation that not solely is that this corruption not being addressed by the authorities that needs to be placing an finish to this man’s venality, however we additionally simply shrug and await the subsequent revelation, sure that nothing can be executed to cease it?
It’s chilling to comprehend how aphorisms just like the one about guaranteeing that we are going to repeat historical past if we ignore it do come true.
The reliability and repute of the Supreme Courtroom are being dismantled by the Supreme Courtroom itself.
Stephanie Nicholas Acquadro
Westfield, N.J.
‘Being Bald Is OK and Pure’
To the Editor:
In “What Helps With Hair Loss” (Effectively, Science Occasions, June 18), Christopher Solomon writes: “Our hair is a technique we inform the world who we’re — and it additionally impacts how the world sees us. So its loss could cause a person actual struggling.”
I disagree; resisting loss is what causes actual struggling.
I began shedding my hair at age 13. I can vividly bear in mind a pal’s father or mother reacting in shock on the sight of my scalp. Over the subsequent decade I took medicines, wore scalp make-up and visited physician after physician.
As a teen I might lie awake in mattress, offended at my bald family members, considering the genetic defect that had brought on my disgrace. The factor I couldn’t see, regardless that it was proper in entrance of me, is that I used to be cherished unconditionally by the folks round me.
This text does a disservice to any man studying it. Being bald is OK and pure. The worst a part of balding will not be how the world will see you, however how you will notice your self. The day I picked up a clipper and gave myself the reward of a buzz minimize was the day my life may lastly start.
Asher Kaplan
Los Angeles
‘Trump Assaults Fly’
To the Editor:
Re “At Biden Fund-Raiser, Trump Assaults Fly” (information article, June 18):
Studying your print headline, my first two ideas had been: “Why is Donald Trump at a Biden fund-raiser?” and “What could possibly be so newsworthy about Mr. Trump swatting a fly?”
Nevertheless, with my mind conditioned by all of the studies on this man’s previous weird conduct and on the craziness pervading in the present day’s politics, I used to be primed to just accept this newest absurdity. Alas, I finally transposed noun and verb appropriately, and escaped that different actuality.
Tom Braziunas
Seattle
