Dec. 16, 2025 8 AM PT
To the editor: The every day emails I obtain from the Democratic Social gathering asking me to resume my membership by sending cash show the occasion’s persevering with failure to know that the times of individuals affiliating and voting by affiliation are lengthy over (“California’s role in shaping the fate of the Democratic Party and combating Trump on full display,” Dec. 14).
Because it contemplates 2028, the occasion ought to advance for the presidency these whose experiences have confirmed them most certainly to have the requisite administrative abilities and political savvy to face an opportunity of main and succeeding: governors. However not Gov. Gavin Newsom. And never Kamala Harris, who twice didn’t convey any sense of why she ought to have the job, and who as we speak carries the extra character handicap of getting allegedly stored silent within the face of President Biden’s declining well being.
Extra importantly, all candidates searching for to win again those that voted their “emotions” within the final three elections should make the primary paragraph of their commonplace stump speech an acknowledgment that the occasion’s concentrate on the rights and entitlements of sure People has brought on us to lose sight of the duties and obligations of all People. Acknowledge that a whole lot of People really feel like issues are going to hell in a handbasket, and that these individuals are not the issue.
Solely then can Democrats hope to maneuver again to the entrance seat and begin fixing our bigger issues.
David Van Iderstine, Los Angeles
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To the editor: I hope Newsom and Harris don’t run for president in 2028. As an alternative, I urge them to help an electable Democrat with monitor document.
In keeping with a 2024 survey for the Los Angeles Times, 50% of U.S. adults consider California is in decline. Many who may very well be gained to the Democrats’ aspect are satisfied that, underneath Democratic leaders, the fundamentals of fine authorities are sorely uncared for. There are lots of Democrats within the state who don’t solely blame the likes of Newsom for the evident incapability of our cities to resolve the issues of homelessness and housing. However, as a result of he and others are leaders, they’re inextricably related to that failure. Neither is this the one situation the place California’s popularity is in dangerous form.
It’s important for us to go ahead with a frank recognition of why our occasion’s approval scores are quite low. {That a} candidate as loathsome as Donald Trump may have gained the presidential election twice tells us all we have to know.
We shouldn’t attempt to persuade the MAGA fanatics, however our presidential candidate can and should be capable to win again giant cohorts of voters whose pursuits we Democrats actually do stand for. Neither Newsom nor Harris is that candidate this time round.
William L. Winslow, Santa Monica
