Aug. 16, 2025 7 AM PT
To the editor: We’re in for an thrilling new season within the nonstop warfare between the Republican Dangerous Boys Membership and the Democratic Good Guys Bleeding Hearts crew (“Newsom calls for special November election to block Trump from ‘rigging’ 2026 midterms,” Aug. 14).
The Dangerous Boys, at the moment captained by the baddest Dangerous Boy, President Trump, have lengthy dominated the sphere, their star gamers scoring nearly at will towards Dem defenses that typically are not any stronger than murmured appeals to motive and morality.
What’s new is that the Good Guys have began to rumble. They’re main their supporters away from drained previous techniques, just like the one Robert Frost noticed half a century in the past: “A liberal is a person too broadminded to take his personal facet in a quarrel.”
The Democrats’ bench seems to be strengthening throughout the nation. For instance, from California there are Gov. Gavin Newsom, Sens. Adam Schiff and Alex Padilla and former Rep. Katie Porter — she of white board and pointed marker wanting to proceed poking holes in weak arguments.
From Illinois, there may be Gov. JB Pritzker. From Pennsylvania, there may be Gov. Josh Shapiro. From New York, there are Gov. Kathy Hochul, Home Minority Chief Hakeem Jeffries and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. And from Vermont there may be reliably combative Sen. Bernie Sanders.
The development is evident: Democrats are by with being pushed round.
Thomas Egan, Costa Mesa
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To the editor: We aren’t residing in regular occasions. The occupant of the White Home has said out loud that he hates Democrats. He needs a single-party-run nation — one managed by MAGA. Newsom’s try to battle again towards pink states that wish to gerrymander Democrats out of existence is seen by some as stooping to the extent of these states.
The issue is that folks with out morals can’t be satisfied to play by established norms. In 2016 we heard the phrases “in the event that they go low, we go excessive,” and we see how that labored out. Ought to we proceed to hobble ourselves to point out our ethical superiority, or can we do what’s essential to battle again towards fascists?
Les Hartzman, Los Angeles
