To the editor: We’re in the course of a constitutional disaster, as President Trump and Elon Musk attempt to destroy the separation of powers and wreak havoc on the federal authorities, cheered on by a spineless GOP Congress. And but The Occasions chooses to print yet one more commentary by Josh Hammer, specializing in the out-of-sync Democratic Get together (“Democrats are drifting dangerously out of sync with the American people,” March 6).
Articles like these, whereas they superficially appear to mirror a “both-sides” strategy, sharing the web page with a “liberal” view, solely dangerously distort the political panorama at what’s the most harmful time for the reason that Civil Conflict.
What is required is the reality. Is it the Democratic Get together that’s out of sync?
Think about: Hammer centered closely on gender-identity points. Gender is one challenge amongst many. In actuality, polls continually mirror that the Democratic Get together is much extra aligned with the desires and priorities of most people than with the GOP — in gun-sensible regulation, combating local weather change, having the wealthy and companies pay their justifiable share of taxes, reproductive rights, preserving the protection internet for the aged and people in want, not aligning with the dictators and preserving authorities companies that shield our well being and public well-being.
I really agree that my occasion has taken gender points manner too far — and lots of Democrats really feel the identical manner. However for the GOP, it has been a present that simply retains on giving, as they use it endlessly, and the tradition warfare typically, to distract the American public from what they’re really doing, and that, in actuality, the general public doesn’t need.
Steven Schechter, Thousand Oaks
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To the editor: Hammer apparently thinks that anyone who disagrees together with his political place isn’t actually an American, as a result of he asserts that almost all People are on his aspect. He claims that Democrats obtained an “electoral shellacking” in November, by no means thoughts that Trump barely gained the favored vote, the Republicans have a razor-thin margin within the closely gerrymandered Home, and the Senate is nearly equally divided. However his worst allegation is his astoundingly bigoted assertion that “folks from Africa, the Center East and Latin America” have “cultures and customs [that] are antithetical to our personal.”
Geoff Kuenning, Claremont
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To the editor: As an outdated, retired political science professor, I suppose I ought to level out the historic misstatement the place Hammer asserts that former President Biden’s appointment of Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson was the primary DEI appointment. Ronald Reagan adopted by on his explicit campaign promise to nominate the primary girl to the U.S. Supreme Court docket, Sandra Day O’Connor in 1981. And the consensus is that her profession served to justify the needs of DEI fairly nicely.
Gary Grey, San Diego
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To the editor: I’d ask Hammer if there was any world in his thoughts wherein a Black particular person will be employed and never qualify as a “DEI rent.” What bar should they clear? In an administration awash with unqualified, inexperienced appointments, we ought to be so fortunate to have “DEI hires” like Jackson and former Vice President Kamala Harris.
Ray Lancon, San Marino
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To the editor: Hammer extols the GOP’s dominance as a result of it addresses what People wished: “… a secure pocketbook, a secure border and a secure world stage.” Trump’s fixation on tariffs has triggered the inventory market to drop and costs to rise for customers.
Sure, the border is locked down, however there isn’t any complete immigration laws to handle anticipated labor shortages within the agriculture and building sectors ensuing from mass deportations.
Europe and NATO not belief U.S. management of the free world. Free and impartial ally nations are threatened with pressured annexation to the U.S. The compliant GOP Congress owns Trump’s dumpster hearth.
Todd Collart, Ventura
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Two columns in Sunday’s Occasions, “Trump wants to undo all kinds of race and gender progress. Here’s what stands in his way,” by Robin Abcarian and the one by Hammer, signify the yin and the yang of American politics. Most People are within the political heart of this conundrum, rejecting the extremes of each events as distasteful, disruptive and never within the nation’s greatest curiosity.
Allen Humphries, Indio
