To the editor: Jonah Goldberg is lacking the purpose in regards to the present divide within the political panorama. (“Has the Democratic Celebration Been Led astray by Progressive Activists?” Opinion, Nov. 28)
The Democratic Celebration just isn’t the get together that refuses to just accept the results of an election that didn’t go their manner. Democrats don’t refuse to sentence a violent assault on the US capital. They don’t refuse to marginalize the white supremacist faction of their get together. Democrats will not be led by an authoritarian misogynist.
Most conventional minorities do not see the Republican Celebration instead as a result of we perceive the politics and nativist fringes that drive it. The get together of Nelson Rockefeller, Jack Kemp and George Romney not exists.
The progressives don’t run the Democratic Celebration. What drives it’s the lack of Democratic tendencies among the many base and management of the GOP as we speak.
Rene Childress, View Park
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To the editor: Goldberg cites a brand new ebook to argue that progressives have led Democrats astray with their “excessive framing” of points like local weather change.
He may assume local weather change is one thing progressives ought to cease speaking about as a result of it “places voters off.” Possibly he even hopes that ignoring it should make it go away. In that case, he’s unsuitable.
Acknowledged scientists perceive that the local weather disaster is actual and have to be solved. Many polls present that the majority People additionally acknowledge that local weather change is actual and taking place now.
I am sufficiently old to recollect manner again when Walter Cronkite, Chet Huntley and David Brinkley had been on the nightly information. They very hardly ever or by no means reported on the climate. Whenever you watch community information as we speak, there may be hardly ever a day when an excessive climate occasion just isn’t talked about.
Sure, the local weather is altering.
Ann Rushton, Sherman Oaks