To the editor: Kudos to columnist Jackie Calmes for listing her top 10 reasons not to vote for Donald Trump. However it’s not solely the previous president who doesn’t deserve our votes; it’s the entire Republican celebration.
By its cult-like blind allegiance to Trump, the Republican Occasion has forsaken its legitimacy. Voters can ship a looking on this celebration’s irresponsibility by defeating its candidates soundly.
Many Republican coverage positions — on healthcare, ladies’s proper to decide on, overseas affairs, immigration, even the way forward for democracy — don’t replicate the desire of the American individuals. On the local weather disaster alone (an unlucky omission from Calmes’ checklist), voting for Trump and different Republicans threatens a protected and wholesome future for humanity. The illness, loss of life and destruction brought on by burning coal, oil and fuel is changing into catastrophic and irreversible.
Till Republicans get critical concerning the crucial points that People care about, they don’t deserve our votes.
Robert Taylor, Santa Barbara
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To the editor: OK, I get it. We’ve got an issue on the border, and grocery costs are too excessive. However the tariffs proposed by Trump will solely enhance the prices of products coming into our nation and can price us extra once we purchase what we’d like.
The inflation charge is 2.4%, and unemployment is at 4.1%.
Nevertheless, the most important risk we face is the continued assault on our democracy. If we’re not cautious, the following election will convey us a dictatorship, after which we would not have the ability to freely voice our complaints.
Please set your priorities accurately so we will preserve our democracy after which repair the nation’s different issues.
Maurice Cayne, Westlake Village
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To the editor: I consider Trump can be elected in a detailed race.
I learn op-eds about how Trump will wreck democracy. Not so quick. Congress, the Division of Justice, the navy and different establishments have methods they’ll mitigate and even cease a Trump dictatorship.
My urgent query is that this: Will we?
How dangerous should his second time period develop into earlier than sufficient is sufficient? Russia invades Poland? The economic system tanks resulting from tariffs? Tax breaks for the wealthy, once more?
We’ll get better from the chaos and perhaps study to hear when a con artist tells you he’s a con artist.
Loring Olk, Phoenix
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To the editor: Maybe Calmes can now give us critical-thinking independents her 10 finest causes to vote for Vice President Kamala Harris.
Her interviews have been shallow with solely talking-point solutions that revert to blaming Trump for this nation’s issues.
Carolyn Helmuth, Costa Mesa
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To the editor: For all of the proof of Trump’s persevering with psychological deterioration, he stays an electoral technique genius.
Understanding that his health for workplace constituted a mounting (if unstated) concern among the many MAGA plenty, Trump devised a backup plan to placate them. He chosen a working mate who manifested three crucial qualities: ardent Trump loyalist, extra well-spoken than Trump and many years youthful than Trump.
Putting Sen. JD Vance on the GOP’s ticket thereby quashed most Republicans’ worries. They know effectively that if reelected, Trump’s overarching precedence can be to derail a number of prison circumstances filed in opposition to him.
As soon as he fends off these prosecutions, he needn’t burden his psychological schools by serving 4 years. He can resign half method by this time period, safe pardons from the newly put in President Vance and retire comfortably to Mar-a-Lago.
Then, Trump’s youthful, succesful acolyte can end out his time period and place the GOP for electoral success in 2028. Whether or not Harris’ assaults on Trump will show efficient is most uncertain.
P. Jane Weil, Sacramento
