To the editor: We’re in for an thrilling new season within the nonstop struggle between the Republican Dangerous Boys Membership and the Democratic Good Guys Bleeding Hearts staff (“Newsom requires particular November election to dam Trump from ‘rigging’ 2026 midterms,” Aug. 14).
The Dangerous Boys, at the moment captained by the baddest Dangerous Boy, President Trump, have lengthy dominated the sector, their star gamers scoring nearly at will towards Dem defenses that usually aren’t any stronger than murmured appeals to purpose and morality.
What’s new is that the Good Guys have began to rumble. They’re main their supporters away from drained previous ways, just like the one Robert Frost noticed half a century in the past: “A liberal is a person too broadminded to take his personal aspect in a quarrel.”
The Democrats’ bench seems to be strengthening throughout the nation. For instance, from California there are Gov. Gavin Newsom, Sens. Adam Schiff and Alex Padilla and former Rep. Katie Porter — she of white board and pointed marker desperate to proceed poking holes in weak arguments.
From Illinois, there’s Gov. JB Pritzker. From Pennsylvania, there’s Gov. Josh Shapiro. From New York, there are Gov. Kathy Hochul, Home Minority Chief Hakeem Jeffries and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. And from Vermont there’s reliably combative Sen. Bernie Sanders.
The development is obvious: Democrats are by with being pushed round.
Thomas Egan, Costa Mesa
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To the editor: We’re not residing in regular instances. The occupant of the White Home has mentioned out loud that he hates Democrats. He needs a single-party-run nation — one managed by MAGA. Newsom’s try and struggle again towards purple states that need to gerrymander Democrats out of existence is seen by some as stooping to the extent of these states.
The issue is that folks with out morals can’t be satisfied to play by established norms. In 2016 we heard the phrases “in the event that they go low, we go excessive,” and we see how that labored out. Ought to we proceed to hobble ourselves to indicate our ethical superiority, or can we do what’s essential to struggle again towards fascists?
Les Hartzman, Los Angeles
