To the editor: Jonah Goldberg asks about Donald Trump being president once more, “Did you feel the vibe shift?”
I felt a temblor stronger than the Northridge earthquake of 1994. 4 years of unfettered “rule” by Trump will take many years to get well from, if we ever do.
In one other op-ed article about Thomas Paine’s concern with unchecked authority expressed within the 1776 pamphlet “Frequent Sense,” the weather described by author A.T. McWilliams appear to be current in our nation at present for the president to behave like a king — just like the proper confluence of situations that led to our current fires.
With unchecked authority, government orders may and can overrule the rule of regulation. Trump has already ordered the discharge of greater than 1,500 Jan. 6 convicts, put enforcement of the TikTok ban on maintain and tried to override the Structure’s birthright citizenship provision.
To increase on Goldberg’s conclusion a couple of ethical arc of the universe not bending in our course anymore, maybe People would like an moral arc bending from coast to coast.
Paul Milberg, Oak Park
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To the editor: Goldberg is definitely appropriate that there’s been an unlimited change evident in our politics by this election.
To the horror of half our residents, the opposite half made peace with misogyny, management of girls’s our bodies, abuse of asylum seekers and an assault on the U.S. Capitol and the police attempting to guard it.
I can solely hope that those that supported Trump didn’t maintain these horrors pricey however merely regarded mentioned horrors because the “lesser of two evils.” It’s laborious to see how that math provides up.
Betsy Rothstein, Lengthy Seaside
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To the editor: I really feel the necessity to nitpick one factoid in Goldberg’s in any other case glorious column on the “vibe shift” in U.S. politics.
He states Trump “gained the favored vote by 1.5 factors.” Trump garnered 49.8% of all votes forged, which means 50.2% of People voted in opposition to him.
Sure, he gained the favored vote in opposition to Harris by 1.5 proportion factors, however he misplaced the general well-liked vote by a slim margin, profitable solely a plurality. (The small variety of third-party votes brings us to 100%.) Thus it’s barely irritating to listen to all of the MAGA speak of a “mandate.”
Going ahead, let’s bear in mind: Final November, extra People went to the polls and voted in opposition to Trump than voted for him.
Invoice Crovella, Los Angeles
