To the editor: There’s nothing fallacious with celebrating, however it’s untimely to imagine that the midterm outcomes will change a lot (“Democrats take Congress in historic sweep as voters rebuke Trump,” Nov. 3). In any case, Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) continues to be set to guide the Senate. He’s a grasp of engaging in nothing.
There are additionally loads of “Democrats” elected Tuesday evening who, like Sen. John Fetterman (D-Pa.), will fortunately break ranks and be a part of President Trump for some company marketing campaign cash. Tuesday evening was encouraging, however trusting {that a} blue wave in Congress is ample to enact change is the error we make each midterm through which Democrats carry out nicely.
Except we drive each Democrat to coordinate for our future, to arrange higher than Republicans, Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) and different centrists will applaud themselves for half measures that go away the progress Republicans have made absolutely intact. They take their very own presence as progress, no matter whether or not they change a factor. If they continue to be as uncoordinated as they’ve been, their failure to arrange will go away our public lands unprotected from growth, and get us no nearer to common healthcare than we have been at first of the Iran battle.
If Democrats don’t manage and enact an agenda like Undertaking 2025, there will likely be no beneficial properties made in opposition to every thing that’s occurred over the past two years. We now have one department of presidency in opposition to two. The president and the Supreme Court docket have a plan to dam each proposed reform.
If this blue wave can’t overcome that, our ineptitude will assist get us 4 extra years of a Republican president in 2028.
Nate Craig, Boulder, Colo.
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To the editor: A blue wave has swept the nation, one virtually paying homage to Katsushika Hokusai’s “The Nice Wave off Kanagawa” (c. 1831). The American republic has skilled a historic second. The result is a significant victory for the Democrats in each the Home and the Senate, but additionally for each American who went to the polls to train the sacred proper to vote.
The Trump presidency — with its imperial type, usually marked by extra, paying homage to a cross between a Wild West saloon proprietor and a Hollywood star sporting a MAGA baseball cap — sowed the wind and reaped the whirlwind.
Throughout America, the excessive value of meals and power, inflation and the usually unjust concentrating on of immigrants created ultimate situations for the Republican Social gathering’s gorgeous defeat. “America First” has devolved into “America First for the Few.”
The Democrats deserved this victory and labored exhausting to realize it. The elections introduced a brand new technology of Democratic politicians to the forefront, providing hope for the way forward for each the celebration and the nation. Whereas the celebration can draw inspiration from its left wing — championing the pursuits of employees and the poor — it should additionally attain towards the middle to retain impartial voters who gave it such a big enhance.
The Founding Fathers might hardly have imagined a president like Trump. But they created establishments and safeguards which have helped American democracy face up to extraordinary challenges, and Individuals are celebrating at present. Nicely, most of us.
Dimitris Eleas, Brooklyn
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To the editor: Collectively, we knocked Trump off the entrance web page of newspapers all around the nation. No dictator right here.
Trump did what nobody thought potential in our polarized nation: He introduced us collectively.
That is what democracy appears like. Once I went to a “get out the vote” rally on Oct. 17, I noticed a lady holding up her cellphone in a FaceTime name, panning out over the assembled crowd. She appeared into her cellphone and stated, “That is Grandma’s work.”
Thanks, Grandma. We will have a good time at present as a win for America and Individuals.
Joel Pelcyger, Los Angeles
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To the editor: The next letter ran within the Los Angeles Occasions on Feb. 7, 2019, when Trump was being impeached. I wrote it in an effort to curb Democratic enthusiasm over the “blue wave” they have been experiencing again then:
“I can see that Home Democrats are fairly excessive on themselves proper now. They need to get pleasure from it whereas it lasts, as a result of I’m trying into the not-too-distant future and I can see the blue Democratic wave crashing on the rocks.
“Is Trump egotistical, impolite, disruptive and offensive? In all probability, however actual progress is just not for the well mannered. Does the present drive to have Trump investigated for the rest of his time period qualify as harassment? Sure, I feel it does.
“There’s a basic drawback with the Democratic technique: It isn’t productive. It’s largely vindictive. That’s the important cause it’s going to backfire on them.
“As an alternative of making an attempt to truly right earlier errors, the Democrats exit and make an entire set of recent ones. That’s the reason the Democrats is not going to succeed in the event that they proceed this course. They’ll fail.”
They usually did fail. They elected Joe Biden (with Kamala Harris as his vp). Solely time will inform, however I don’t see any good coming from these midterms — not for any state and even the nation. It gained’t be lengthy earlier than this present mistake is realized and we go proper again to the place we began, and that’s as a result of neither celebration by itself has the entire answer.
Arthur Saginian, Santa Clarita
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To the editor: Tuesday’s blue wave is a transparent mandate for motion, however we should not mistake a shift in energy for a everlasting victory. We felt the same sense of triumph when Biden defeated Trump, but unkept guarantees and a refusal to hearken to voters finally paved the best way for Trump to return even stronger. If newly elected officers merely change one set of self-serving, morally degrading insurance policies with their very own, this election means nothing.
True progress requires rigorous checks and balances and a unified imaginative and prescient for the nation, not simply partisan wins. As an imam, I’m guided by the Holy Prophet Muhammad’s educating that love for one’s nation — not blind love for a political celebration — is a part of religion. Moreover, the pinnacle of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Group, Hazrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad, has warned that leaders should “put aside their very own vested pursuits” to serve the higher good.
The voters demanded optimistic change on Tuesday; now, the true work begins.
Mahmood Kauser, Chino
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To the editor: First, congratulations, Democrats! Let’s all get pleasure from this second within the solar. OK, that’s sufficient. Now it’s time to get to work and govern.
Don’t imitate Trump and waste time (and goodwill) getting revenge. Don’t impeach Trump — he’s the lamest of geese. Do take again the ability from the White Home. Move a legislation disabling tariffs. Trump will veto, however it’s going to make the purpose to voters that you simply’re critical about affordability. Vote in opposition to the Iran battle. Trump will veto, but it surely exhibits you’re taking gas costs critically. Minimize off funds for Trump’s vainness tasks, beginning with the arch and golf course. And at last, maintain Immigration and Customs Enforcement accountable for his or her crimes in opposition to civilians.
Don’t allow us to down. As soon as once more, congratulations to the Democrats. Now get to work.
Terry McKenzie, Pasadena
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To the editor: Trump: ”Fake I’m on the poll!”
The nation: “We did!”
Christopher A. Wills, North Tustin
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To the editor: The referendum on Trump is over, and he misplaced. We the folks gained.
Can Congress undo the harm he has induced? Can Congress finish the Iran battle? Will Congress assist Ukraine? Can Congress return civility to authorities? Will it impeach and take away Trump? Will Trump change, like his predecessors have accomplished in comparable conditions? Or will or not it’s politics as ordinary and a misplaced alternative?
T. D. Proffitt, Santa Ana
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To the editor: The triumphant Democratic Social gathering might need to train prudence with its return to energy. It might inform Trump, “In the event you promise to go play golf for the subsequent two years and go away us alone, we’ll go away you alone.”
Michael Krubiner, Valley Village
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To the editor: The Republicans had a trifecta — they usually blew it. They blew it with racism, homophobia, gerrymandering and an out-of-touch president. On the eve of a midterm election, Trump was speaking concerning the Reflecting Pool whereas Individuals proceed to battle to place meals on the desk and fuel of their automobiles.
This midterm was a complete and unequivocal rebuke of the Republican Social gathering’s ugly politics and insurance policies, and it has restored my religion within the American folks.
Trump won’t ever admit or acknowledge his lies and deceit have been delivered a dying knell. Hopefully the remainder of the Republicans do!
Paula Petrotta, Rancho Palo Verdes
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To the editor: The midterms are over and now comes the troublesome half: governing. Congress can fulfill its constitutional accountability by working throughout the aisle and passing laws that actually is the need of the folks, not topic to the whims of a wannabe dictator. Take observe, newly elected representatives. This alteration is just not about gender identification, taxes on billionaires, redistribution of wealth, defunding the police or range, fairness and inclusion.
It’s about non-public trade working with the federal government to create jobs by rebuilding the infrastructure, constructing bridges and roads and water and electrical programs. It’s about restoring relations with our longtime allies, using navy and diplomatic coalitions to stress rogue overseas states, and eradicating commerce restrictions which have put a choke maintain on free enterprise.
We will have strong capitalism and raise the standard of life for many Individuals on the similar time. It is a nice nation, however we’re not an island that may stand alone within the fashionable world.
Michael Rubino, San Pedro
