To the editor: I spent the late Seventies and Eighties carefully related to Ronald Reagan, a temperate and great particular person. My father and brother had been federal company govt appointees of President Reagan, my mom an assistant to the president for eight years within the White Home; I served as treasurer of his political motion committee from 1982 to 1986.
Nobody would examine President Trump to Ronald Reagan, or to lots of the “founders” of the nation (“The Founding Fathers would’ve gotten rid of Trump way back,” Might 19).
Nevertheless, political leaders in any period are a product of their time. And, had been it not for Trump, hundreds of thousands of Individuals would have been trampled on whereas the country-club politicians in command of the Republican Celebration fiddled within the minority.
Columnist Jonah Goldberg neglects to acknowledge founder Thomas Jefferson’s acts and people of a number of different presidents that had been carried out with out them in search of congressional approval. As a substitute, he serves as a vivid instance of country-club concession to the political mob whose one aim is absolute and everlasting energy.
Kip Dellinger, Santa Monica
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To the editor: It’s getting actually tiresome studying Goldberg’s scribes — and truly agreeing with him. Right here’s to a different two years and eight months of this.
Robert Bruce, Lengthy Seashore
