To the Editor:
Re “Declaring Run, Trump Ignores Occasion Setbacks” (entrance web page, Nov. 16):
As Donald Trump publicizes one other run for the presidency, the nation, the Republican Occasion and the media would do nicely to heed the previous saying “Idiot me as soon as, disgrace on you; idiot me twice, disgrace on me.”
In his profitable 2016 run for the presidency, everybody underestimated him and unwittingly turned his confederate. The nation was conned, the G.O.P. was caught flat-footed, and the media in its lust for prime scores and elevated readership gave him a plethora of free publicity as a result of, in spite of everything, the person’s a clown. What might probably go fallacious?
Your story states that Mr. Trump’s “unusually early announcement was motivated partially by a calculation {that a} formal candidacy might assist protect him from a number of investigations” concerning his makes an attempt to overturn the 2020 election. I agree with every part in that sentence besides the phrases “partially.”
He’s definitely not working once more to assist the nation. When did he ever put the nation forward of his ego and his private wants? See the pandemic. He’s not working once more to assist his occasion. See what his endorsements did for the G.O.P. on this yr’s midterms.
For his or her half, the Republicans, a few of them at the very least, are lastly talking out towards Mr. Trump and his candidacy. However not in patriotic response to what he did to the nation in richly incomes two impeachments and inflicting the Jan. 6 Capitol riot. Heavens, no. It’s due to their very own aspirations. They odor political blood within the water.
Don’t let Donald Trump idiot us twice. Or disgrace on us.
Greg Joseph
Solar Metropolis, Ariz.
The author is a retired journalist and tv critic.
To the Editor:
As a Republican, I’m involved with the route of my occasion after the 2020 presidential election and the Jan. 6 Capitol rebellion. Our underwhelming exhibiting in the course of the midterm elections felt like the right time to desert the chaos surrounding Donald Trump. However watching the previous president’s presidential marketing campaign announcement, I turned anxious that, for the third time, we’d fall prey to his deception and divisiveness.
As an alternative of attempting to be a unifier, the previous president has criticized outstanding Republican officers in hopes of tamping down any opposition brewing to his new marketing campaign. As soon as once more, the previous president has positioned himself above the pursuits of his occasion and the American voters.
However for all of the chatter that the Republican Occasion is able to transfer on from Mr. Trump, the previous president continues to be polling above his seemingly competitors. And if Republican voters nominate him for a 3rd time to be president, I worry that our occasion will see some darkish days sooner or later.
Kiran Bhatia
Brookline, Mass.
To the Editor:
Please do us all a favor by limiting your protection of Donald Trump. He thrives on consideration. He’s completely unfit for workplace, and we’re bored with studying about him.
Sally McMillen
Davidson, N.C.
The author is emerita professor of historical past at Davidson Faculty.
To the Editor:
Re “A Fractured G.O.P. Seeks New Path Amid Energy Battle” (information article, Nov. 12):
Divisions inside the Republican Occasion elevate a number of questions. If Ron DeSantis prevails in what would seemingly be a bruising contest for the nomination in 2024, what can we anticipate from Donald Trump’s supporters? The reply might rely upon whether or not Republicans then resemble a conventional political occasion, or proceed to resemble a cult.
Will those that supported Mr. Trump be prepared to fall in line and vote for a nominee who will not be the chief of their cult? And if many don’t, what can be the prospects for a Republican victory?
John Becker
Edison, N.J.
To the Editor:
I predict that if Ron DeSantis is the Republican Occasion’s presidential nominee in 2024, Donald Trump is not going to bow out gracefully, given his contempt for Mr. DeSantis.
Relatively than sit on the sidelines like a loser, he’ll spitefully run as a third-party candidate, demonstrating as soon as once more his energy by ruining any hope that Mr. DeSantis and the Republicans have of recapturing the presidency.
John Scanlan
Wethersfield, Conn.
To the Editor:
With all their pent-up grievance anger, MAGA Republicans are hellbent on beginning a civil struggle. However slightly than being between left and proper, it seems as if this civil struggle goes to be inside the Republican Occasion. Keep tuned. This stands to be a doozy!
To the Editor:
Re “Abortion Swayed Voters Extra Than Was Predicted” (information article, Nov. 11):
All voters enter the voting field alone. Which means girls enter it alone. There, girls vote their actual wants — their wants for autonomy, privateness, respect. Similar to males.
No pollster is listening, making just a little mark in a field for them. Likewise, no companion hovers within the background. No political group is chanting, impassioning, judging.
There’s no whisper however the girl’s personal intelligence. The lady alone makes her mark. And what she has mentioned to everybody else is: Belief me. I belief myself. I make good choices. I’m your mom, your sister, your daughter, your companion.
Respect girls. You’re listening to their voice — lastly.
Jocelyn Ellis
Seattle
To the Editor:
Re “Not Trump’s Night time: A Crimson Wave That Wasn’t” (letters, Nov. 10):
Donald Trump influenced the result of the midterm elections in one other means, moreover these cited within the letters. By nominating extraordinarily conservative, tone-deaf, close-minded judges to the Supreme Courtroom, he reminded the citizens that residents’ votes are their voice.
The defeat of Roe woke up many voters to their energy in our valuable democracy, thereby making the so-called pink wave a mere ripple. Hopefully recollections are lengthy and recognition of the significance of a single vote will carry over to future elections, even when rights aren’t threatened.
Maureen Prindiville
Lincoln, Calif.
Whiz Children Who Succeed, and These Who Don’t
To the Editor:
Re “The Folly of Relying on the Tech Whiz Child,” by Margaret O’Mara (Opinion visitor essay, Nov. 16), about Sam Bankman-Fried, the founding father of the cryptocurrency alternate FTX:
The younger folks Ms. O’Mara mentions who succeeded (like Steve Jobs and Invoice Gates) developed actual, world-changing merchandise. The 2 who failed (Elizabeth Holmes and Mr. Bankman-Fried) had been promoting a fraudulent product in a single case and a product with no underlying worth within the second.
These initiatives would have failed regardless of who was behind them. Mature grownup traders ought to know higher.
Desmond G. Sheridan
Greensboro, N.C.
Migrants Fleeing for Their Lives
To the Editor:
“Climbing the ‘Hill of Dying’ With out Her Mom” (entrance web page, Nov. 12), about migrants fleeing for his or her lives alongside a 70-mile hellish jungle go in Panama, reminds us that the present refugee disaster will not be about “open borders,” because the Republicans have been allowed to border the talk.
A extra reality-based nationwide dialog needs to be in regards to the existential disaster of the rising variety of societies throughout the planet that may now not maintain human life.
Bob Salzman
New York
Supply: NY Times