To the editor: Vice President Kamala Harris conceded the election in a well timed and dignified method, but many on the suitable should nonetheless really feel threatened by her. Why else would they proceed to personally denigrate her as Charlotte Allen did? (“Harris’ real error — not bros, not Biden, not the border,” Opinion, Nov. 14)
Allen cites the Al Smith dinner in New York, the place she says Trump helped elevate thousands and thousands of {dollars} for charity whereas he “merrily roasted Democrats” and “Harris didn’t even present up.”
Whereas we don’t know why she didn’t attend, this was no merry roast by Trump. With the Catholic archbishop of New York near him, Trump vomited the identical toxic smears he used at his rallies. He on no account put apart the acidity of politics for a better trigger, which is the purpose of this charity fundraiser.
As for Allen’s declare that the Democrats and Harris needed free surgical procedures for transgender jail inmates, the document reveals that offering gender-affirming care to federal inmates when medical doctors decided it medically needed was accepted below the Trump administration. When requested about this, Harris stated she would obey the coverage that Trump adopted.
The massive crowds exhibiting a cross-section of People that got here out in assist of the vp are a repudiation of Allen’s mean-girl tackle Harris.
Pleasure Rockport, Van Nuys
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To the editor: I agree with Allen that Harris made a disastrous mistaken flip in the midst of her insanely brief and energetic presidential highway journey.
I stored pondering halfway via the marketing campaign that this doesn’t sound good — her dissing again at Trump, shedding her lightness and her true self, losing time on the MAGA rubbish that the media have been glomming onto.
Therein lies the issue — the company media, the cash machine. As William S. Burroughs stated: “What does the cash machine eat? It eats youth, spontaneity, life, magnificence and above all it eats creativity. It eats high quality and [excretes] out amount.”
I too felt Harris’ aid in her concession speech. Nonetheless, I want Biden had adopted via on his pledge to function a bridge to a brand new era of leaders, implying he wouldn’t search reelection. It might not have been the joyful Harris who emerged the nominee, however I can’t assist pondering (and I do know I’m not alone) that issues is likely to be completely different proper now.
However Trump continues to get what he desires and thrives on his merciless phrases unfold within the media. Bear in mind the bullies on the playground: After they stopped getting a lot consideration, they misplaced their energy.
Sadly, the monster is out of the field, and it looks like there’s no defeating it.
Heidi Santschi, Los Angeles
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To the editor: Allen writes that Harris doesn’t wish to “pore over boring binders of coverage papers and U.S. code sections.”
That’s laughable, because it’s recognized that Trump’s insurance policies come from the final particular person in his ear and he doesn’t learn something longer than just a few pages.
Dave Gershenson, Van Nuys
