Nov. 11, 2025 8 AM PT
To the editor: Contributing author Josh Hammer has his finger on the heartbeat of American sentiment when he breaks down points that resulted in a terrific week for the Democratic Occasion all around the map (“In recent Democratic wins, there are lessons for the GOP,” Nov. 7).
The working class is anxious about “pocketbook” points. It’s true that many people see the GOP as obsessive about tax cuts for his or her elites and the donor class, and that we imagine they’re detached to tens of tens of millions of People in lots of areas (cue the band for President Trump’s “Gatsby” occasion).
The present the world has been witness to since Jan. 20 contains Trump and the GOP’s makes an attempt to extort and dismantle our instructional establishments, tariffs, tax breaks for the wealthy on the expense of our grandchildren, exploitation of our environmental sources and, to prime all of it off, the freeze of meals help to tens of millions of People proper earlier than Thanksgiving and Christmas. We’re simply dumbfounded. However we’re standing up, and we’re preventing again.
That, my good friend, is why the Democrats did so nicely in particular elections lately and can proceed to take action in subsequent 12 months’s midterms. And received’t that be a revelation?
Mindy Taylor-Ross, Venice
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To the editor: I agree with numerous the factors in Hammer’s piece, however there’s one little drawback: Trump doesn’t care. As Hammer states, “If financial nervousness persists via subsequent fall’s midterms, voters will punish whichever occasion seems extra detached to their struggles.”
What caring chief would attraction a choose’s order to supply full SNAP advantages when there’s an emergency fund established to supply them? What caring political occasion would obstinately deny extending Reasonably priced Care Act subsidies, shutting down the federal government within the course of (the longest shutdown in U.S. historical past)? What caring lawmakers would do that whereas gifting billionaires with enormous tax breaks?
I feel voters will keep in mind these and different Trump failures in 2026.
David Berry, Altadena
