To the editor: I’m not a younger man and have voted in lots of presidential elections, generally Republican and generally Democrat. I’ve witnessed the far extremes of each events lose, and I really imagine that the majority People are middle-of-the-roaders like me. (“Signposts on the road to authoritarian rule,” Opinion, Feb. 10)
That mentioned, I’ve nice nervousness that our democracy is below risk.
A president can’t simply declare a part of a constitutional modification invalid. Enacted laws can’t simply be ignored. Immigration coverage and funds deficits are main points which have developed over years; they can’t be mounted in just a few weeks by firing authorities employees or deporting individuals at will.
The Jan. 6, 2021, assault was actuality. Folks at the moment serving in Congress have been trapped contained in the U.S. Capitol that day. Greater than 1,500 individuals have been convicted by a jury of their friends or pleaded responsible in reference to the assault. And now we’re to imagine that nobody did something fallacious. I can’t settle for that an assault on Congress is someway OK.
It has been advised that the Republicans in energy concern retribution from President Trump. However we’re a democracy, and whereas they might have received the election, they weren’t given limitless energy.
I’m at a loss to grasp why Republicans immediately can’t keep in mind Abraham Lincoln’s phrases extolling “authorities of the individuals, by the individuals, for the individuals” — and never simply the individuals who agree with Trump.
Walt Oliver, Santa Paula
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To the editor: Does UC Berkeley College of Legislation Dean Erwin Chemerinsky imagine that democracy in america will finish in the course of the subsequent 4 years?
Trump was elected to decelerate or halt the excesses of the earlier administration, to not set up authoritarian rule. If he goes too far, the individuals will resist and vote in somebody with whom Chemerinsky agrees.
Robert S. Rodgers, Culver Metropolis
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To the editor: Oh, America, what have you ever executed? You’ve elected a malignant narcissist to be your president, and also you’re properly in your option to shedding your democracy.
In 1933, it took the newly put in Chancellor of Germany Adolf Hitler 53 days to remodel that nation’s democracy right into a dictatorship.
Too many individuals imagine it may possibly’t occur right here. In Europe they didn’t imagine it may occur there both. Then it did. My mother and father noticed the horror in Nazi-occupied Holland.
Our Structure can’t implement itself. Folks of fine character should uphold it within the face of leaders who ignore it, demand loyalty to themselves, give unlawful orders and fireplace watchdogs.
Listed here are some guidelines for resisting tyranny: Don’t obey upfront, defend establishments, and be able to say “no” to unlawful orders. See the work of students Timothy Snyder and Ruth Ben-Ghiat, and browse the journalism of Masha Gessen.
Matty Park, Ventura
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To the editor: I admire Chemerinsky’s clear itemization of Trump’s shredding of the U.S. Structure, however I imagine he was too well mannered. Residents should awaken to our peril. Trump’s violation of the legislation has slid or will slide us into despotism.
All media should keep reporting of the assaults on the Structure as their main obligation. Reviews on the within pages of newspapers are usually not ample.
Lloyd A. Dent, Northridge
