To the Editor:
Re “Trump Continues to Roll With Win in New Hampshire” (entrance web page, Jan. 24):
I believed for a fleeting second Tuesday evening when the New Hampshire Republican major outcomes started to return in that these amongst us who’re disgusted by the considered a candidate who offers the looks of a modern-style fascist, praises the likes of Viktor Orban and now could be even shedding grip on his psychological acuity is likely to be joined by main factions of the Republican Occasion.
However with the first over, it seems that this isn’t true. Donald Trump made good points even amongst suburban Republicans. This seems to be who the occasion is now and who they need to characterize them.
The soul of American democracy has by no means been in a lot jeopardy, and people of us who need to put it aside have our work reduce out for us.
Larry Lobert
Grosse Pointe Park, Mich.
To the Editor:
The takeaway from the New Hampshire major isn’t that Nikki Haley can’t win the Republican nomination. We knew that already, in addition to that the Republican Occasion has been hijacked by Donald Trump and his MAGA supporters, with G.O.P. moderates briefly, if not completely, sidelined.
What Ms. Haley’s sturdy exhibiting demonstrated, nevertheless, is that New Hampshire will vote for Joe Biden in November, and that independents, in massive numbers, will favor Mr. Biden over Mr. Trump. One motive that Mr. Trump is so desperate to push Ms. Haley off the sector is that she is, successfully, organizing Independents for Biden.
Mr. Biden’s street to victory might be primarily by independents in purple states and, to some extent, reasonable Republicans who would moderately have a reasonable Democrat within the White Home than one other chaotic journey with Mr. Trump. If earlier than Ms. Haley’s candidacy Democrats didn’t know whom to focus on, they know now: middle-class, educated, impartial voters in city communities.
New Hampshire confirmed us who and the place they’re, and methods to win their votes.
Rita C. Tobin
Chappaqua, N.Y.
To the Editor:
I notice that Donald Trump is the odds-on favourite to win the Republican Occasion presidential nomination. Barring some unexpected circumstances, that would be the case. Nonetheless, if I’m Nikki Haley I’m not quitting the race. As of this writing, Mr. Trump has 12 delegates and Ms. Haley has 9 out of New Hampshire. Her marketing campaign has legs.
For the lifetime of me, I’ll by no means perceive why Mr. Trump will get the help he will get, however I wouldn’t have to grasp. It isn’t hyperbole to say that the state of American democracy could effectively relaxation on who wins the election.
So, run, Nikki, run. Donald Trump merely needs to be defeated this 12 months.
Bruce Neuman
Water Mill, N.Y.
To the Editor:
If Nikki Haley actually desires to be president, she ought to keep within the race all the best way to the vote on the Republican conference, whatever the leads to New Hampshire or South Carolina or elsewhere. Why? As a result of she’s going to proceed to win delegates wherever she campaigns.
If Donald Trump is convicted on any of his 4 felony instances earlier than the 2024 election, the Republicans would possibly simply bail on him. In the event that they do, their greatest go-to candidate could be the one credible candidate to get actual votes on the conference, on this case Ms. Haley. However provided that she stays the course.
As a Biden Democrat I might not welcome that strategy by Ms. Haley as a result of she simply would possibly beat my very own candidate.
Charles Fels
Knoxville, Tenn.
A Conflict of Views Over the U.S. and Israel
To the Editor:
Re “Israel Rebuffs Calls to Work on Statehood for Palestine” (information article, Jan. 19):
Having persistently publicly pressed Israel to restrict its navy marketing campaign in Gaza, the Biden administration has now turned to a brand new demand: pressuring Israel to conform to the creation of a Palestinian state, which President Biden describes as the one viable long-term answer.
Viable answer? Hamas has at all times made clear that its objective is to create just one state — not together with Israel. And whereas the Palestinian Authority has, at occasions, given lip service to a “two-state answer,” it has at all times insisted that it include the return of hundreds of thousands of Palestinians to Israel, in the end turning the Jews right into a minority and destroying Israel as a Jewish state.
It’s time for the U.S. to cease urging Israel to conform to a “answer” that may sow the seeds of its self-destruction.
Kenneth A. Margolis
Chappaqua, N.Y.
To the Editor:
Underneath the defend of the USA’ unconditional help for Israel, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has pursued insurance policies that violate every little thing we all know as justice — the advantage on the coronary heart of our spiritual and civic legislation and foundational to each our nations.
Mr. Netanyahu’s extremism is matched by his truculence. When he rebuffs calls to work towards sovereign Israeli and Palestinian states with “What are you able to do?,” for this American Jew and Zionist, the reply is obvious: Instantly cut back U.S. navy help to Israel.
Annlinn Kruger
Bar Harbor, Maine
Freedom of Speech
To the Editor:
Re “When States Try to Restrict Americans’ Speech” (editorial, Jan. 21):
A cornerstone of America is its dedication to the impartial ideas and values of free speech and expression. The federal government can not choose and select these views it approves, and reject or prohibit these views it disapproves.
Your editorial serves a beneficial goal in alerting readers to the current erosion of this fundamental freedom.
Whether or not the problem is requiring a pledge to not boycott Israel, limiting a instructor’s proper to discuss race or sexual id points, or requiring a brand new worker to signal a press release supporting range, fairness and inclusion ideas, the First Modification ensures the correct to talk freely, with a number of exceptions, with out the worry of censorship or punishment by the federal government.
Traditionally, the wrestle to realize freedom, justice and equality has trusted the correct to free speech. The current effort to devalue the ideas of the First Modification is a disturbing signal of the occasions that must be carefully monitored and, the place essential, challenged. In any other case, America and its residents lose one thing basic and particular.
Norman Siegel
New York
The author is a civil rights lawyer and a former govt director of the New York Civil Liberties Union.
To the Editor:
Re “When You Return Those Pants, the Planet Pays,” by Pamela Paul (column, Jan. 12):
It’s unhappy (and fairly shameful) that on-line retailers discover it extra handy and cheaper to ship returned objects to the landfill, moderately than donate them to those that may use them. Are the retailers not conscious that there are literally thousands of charitable organizations all through the nation that may gladly settle for this stuff?
Each municipality of first rate measurement has a Goodwill retailer, or an equal thrift store run by native church buildings or different benevolent associations. Many of those will gladly come and choose up the donations. To these retailers, please be extra accountable company residents!
Invoice Fry
Milwaukee
