To the editor: Contributing author Matt Lewis’ sentiment is of important significance (“What can Democrats stand for when there’s no Trump to stand against?,” April 3). Within the subsequent elections, Democrats will want a platform that actually sticks with voters. It isn’t sufficient for them to give attention to their superiority to President Trump. It wasn’t sufficient in 2024.
Democrats don’t simply want a candidate for president. They want a press release that can maintain this nation collectively. Phrases matter.
I counsel that we contemplate turning to the phrases spoken by Abraham Lincoln in his Gettysburg Address. Though Lincoln was the chief of the Union, he was chatting with Southerners in addition to to Northerners.
Lincoln’s phrases paid tribute to all of the courageous males who had fought and died at Gettysburg, males on each side. He then aimed his phrases to the dwelling, concerning the unfinished work that remained to be carried out sooner or later. He acknowledged that the nation’s founders had devoted the nation to the proposition that every one males are created equal.
He ended by stating “that this nation, underneath God, shall have a brand new beginning of freedom — and that authorities of the individuals, by the individuals, for the individuals, shall not perish from the earth.”
All of the individuals. The wealthy and the poor. Women and men. The younger and the outdated. Individuals of colour and white individuals. Christians and non-Christians. Democrats, Republicans and independents.
In spite of everything, we’re america, proper? Each coverage the Democrats suggest ought to be constructed round that premise.
Steve Wooden, Ventura
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To the editor: Lewis needs to induce Democrats to not lose contact with voters, however he appears to be simply as out of contact.
What I need is adjustments in our norms, requirements and Structure to make sure a president like Donald Trump can’t get elected sooner or later. This implies amending the Structure to overturn Residents United, restoring reproductive freedom, preempting the so-called unitary govt principle and throwing out “historical past and custom” as legitimate constitutional arguments. It means passing legal guidelines that might give tooth to the emoluments clause and requiring detailed monetary disclosures from candidates (additionally with tooth). It means banning inventory buying and selling by elected officers, Cupboard secretaries and different directors (excepting index funds), and more durable conflict-of-interest legal guidelines.
That might convey out voters of each events.
Miguel Muñoz, Los Angeles
