To the editor: We’re in the midst of a constitutional disaster, as President Trump and Elon Musk attempt to destroy the separation of powers and wreak havoc on the federal authorities, cheered on by a spineless GOP Congress. And but The Occasions chooses to print yet one more commentary by Josh Hammer, specializing in the out-of-sync Democratic Get together (“Democrats are drifting dangerously out of sync with the American people,” March 6).
Articles like these, whereas they superficially appear to mirror a “both-sides” strategy, sharing the web page with a “liberal” view, solely dangerously distort the political panorama at what’s the most harmful time for the reason that Civil Struggle.
What is required is the reality. Is it the Democratic Get together that’s out of sync?
Take into account: Hammer targeted closely on gender-identity points. Gender is one problem amongst many. In actuality, polls continually mirror that the Democratic Get together is way extra aligned with the needs and priorities of most of the people than with the GOP — in gun-sensible regulation, preventing local weather change, having the wealthy and companies pay their fair proportion of taxes, reproductive rights, preserving the security internet for the aged and people in want, not aligning with the dictators and preserving authorities companies that shield our well being and public well-being.
I really agree that my social gathering has taken gender points method too far — and lots of Democrats really feel the identical method. However for the GOP, it has been a present that simply retains on giving, as they use it endlessly, and the tradition battle usually, to distract the American public from what they’re really doing, and that, in actuality, the general public doesn’t need.
Steven Schechter, Thousand Oaks
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To the editor: Hammer apparently thinks that anyone who disagrees together with his political place isn’t actually an American, as a result of he asserts that almost all Individuals are on his facet. He claims that Democrats obtained an “electoral shellacking” in November, by no means thoughts that Trump barely received the favored vote, the Republicans have a razor-thin margin within the closely gerrymandered Home, and the Senate is sort of equally divided. However his worst allegation is his astoundingly bigoted assertion that “folks from Africa, the Center East and Latin America” have “cultures and customs [that] are antithetical to our personal.”
Geoff Kuenning, Claremont
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To the editor: As an previous, retired political science professor, I suppose I ought to level out the historic misstatement the place Hammer asserts that former President Biden’s appointment of Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson was the primary DEI appointment. Ronald Reagan adopted via on his explicit campaign promise to nominate the primary girl to the U.S. Supreme Court docket, Sandra Day O’Connor in 1981. And the consensus is that her profession served to justify the needs of DEI fairly effectively.
Gary Grey, San Diego
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To the editor: I’d ask Hammer if there was any world in his thoughts by which a Black particular person might be employed and never qualify as a “DEI rent.” What bar should they clear? In an administration awash with unqualified, inexperienced appointments, we must be so fortunate to have “DEI hires” like Jackson and former Vice President Kamala Harris.
Ray Lancon, San Marino
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To the editor: Hammer extols the GOP’s dominance as a result of it addresses what Individuals wished: “… a steady pocketbook, a steady border and a steady world stage.” Trump’s fixation on tariffs has prompted the inventory market to drop and costs to rise for customers.
Sure, the border is locked down, however there isn’t a complete immigration laws to deal with anticipated labor shortages within the agriculture and building sectors ensuing from mass deportations.
Europe and NATO now not belief U.S. management of the free world. Free and impartial ally nations are threatened with compelled annexation to the U.S. The compliant GOP Congress owns Trump’s dumpster fireplace.
Todd Collart, Ventura
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Two columns in Sunday’s Occasions, “Trump wants to undo all kinds of race and gender progress. Here’s what stands in his way,” by Robin Abcarian and the one by Hammer, symbolize the yin and the yang of American politics. Most Individuals are within the political middle of this conundrum, rejecting the extremes of each events as distasteful, disruptive and never within the nation’s greatest curiosity.
Allen Humphries, Indio
