To the editor: Jonah Goldberg makes a number of good factors in his column on presidential “mandates,” however he leaves out crucial one.
The subsequent president will as soon as once more be elected by the slimmest of margins, that means that half of the nation’s voters won’t help his or her platform. Now greater than ever, our authorities must acknowledge the polarized nature of its citizenry and work towards compromise on all points, pushed by its constitutional directive to serve all People.
The political whiplash that outcomes from continued assumed mandates will solely hasten the downfall of this nation.
R. C. Value, San Clemente
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To the editor: Goldberg writes, “The particular person the voters determine to rent could have just one actual mandate: to do the job delineated by the Structure.”
He may have talked about that certainly one of our main candidates has known as for the termination of that very same Structure, incited an revolt, was nominated after inciting that revolt (in violation of the Structure) and refused to defend the Structure as required by his oath of workplace.
What Goldberg regards as a mandate, the GOP regards as solely a private political assault on Trump that should be scorned and pushed apart. Patriots certainly.
Eric Carey, Arlington, Va.