Readers sound off on normalizing Trump, national referendums and Russia’s ‘de-Nazification’

We should not beryllium letting his mean go ours

Lakewood, N.J.: Isn’t it astir clip for media editors, journalists, writers and quality readers to cease and desist their normalizing Donald Trump and his thoughts, words and deeds? So-called nonrecreational journalists virtually kicked President Biden retired of the contention for age-related impairments, though helium remains a well-functioning president.

Simultaneously, media radical disregard the information that Trump is present the oldest idiosyncratic ever to tally for the bureau of president successful the past of the United States! Obviously, helium volition proceed to property arsenic helium sits successful the Oval Office, with nary volition of stepping down astatine the completion of his word successful 2028. Will America endure a dictator successful his 90s?

The media successful wide has abandoned each semblance of fairness and impartiality, possibly owed to the amusement worth of Trump’s appearances and rants. The moderators of the statement betwixt Trump and Kamala Harris tried valiantly to get a consecutive answer, oregon immoderate reply astatine all, from Trump portion conscientiously requesting accusation and specifics astir policies. Trump has successfully demolished the conception and world of normalcy. The media has accepted the abnormal successful Trump, and helium gets passes for each his errors of judgment, yet expects his hostile to present cogent and compelling data!

But the worst repudiation of journalistic work is pretending that Trump is mentally afloat functional. Any different idiosyncratic who thinks, acts and speaks arsenic helium does — dense connected choler and threats of vengeance but incapable of delivering a wide condemnation with close details — would beryllium tagged arsenic mentally ill. Patricia Barr

From wherever lies flow

Glasgow, Scotland: Who is liable for the large part successful American authorities contiguous and however it plays retired successful American life? The reply is simple: the broadside that persists successful lying each the time. Believing lies tin unfastened the doorway to the darker broadside of humanity wrong us. Lies tin corrupt. And which broadside is relying connected lies the most? The Republicans. And who is showing much of the acheronian broadside of humanity? The Republicans, spearheaded by Donald Trump, are a spot of a alien to the truth. I remainder my case. Simple, arsenic I said. Mark Davidson

Means mayhem

Orangetown, N.Y.: There is simply a caller connection successful the dictionary. It’s “Trumpism,” defined as: creating chaos, hate, fearfulness and violence. Al Hagan

Epic nonsense

Staten Island: Donald Trump cried retired everything astatine the statement but “the dingo ate your baby!” Lol. Reg Amis

Checkmate

Forest Hills: I watched past week’s evisceration of Trump — oops, I mean statement betwixt Trump and Harris. It made maine deliberation of the crippled of chess. Harris was capable to trump Trump (pun intended) astatine each turn. My conclusion: checkmate, Trump blameworthy arsenic charged! When it ended, I heard large cracking sounds coming from my TV. My woman heard it, too. Couldn’t fig retired what it was, and past I had an aha moment: The “glass ceiling” was yet starting to crack. The sweetest sounds I ever heard (shout-out to Richard Rodgers)! Did anyone other perceive it? Mel Moskowitz

Repent and beryllium forgiven

Itasca, Ill.: My powerfulness of forgiveness is shaken. What acceptable maine backmost was an MSNBC sheet discussion, “Evangelicals erstwhile ‘hijacked by MAGA’ flock to Harris-Walz.” These are the aforesaid evangelicals who were instrumental successful electing a campaigner recovered liable for enactment abuse, serial lying and who has 34 felony convictions. Much of this misbehavior was confirmed aft helium near office, but determination were ever reddish flags. A kind, forgiving psyche doesn’t person to forfeit communal consciousness oregon disregard painfully evident grounds of wrongdoing. I anticipation Democrats invited them with unfastened arms. It’s the close happening to do. I’ll forgive them too, eventually. The past happening America needs is different hypocrite. Jim Newton

Immature arsenic ever

Far Rockaway: So, I’m watching MSNBC and there’s a breaking quality story: Trump wrote connected Truth Social “I HATE TAYLOR SWIFT!” Really? Trump indispensable not person gotten a emotion missive from Patrick Mahomes’ woman yet. As a substance of fact, Trump indispensable inactive beryllium reeling from the succession of gut punches from Kamala. Trump continues to beryllium that helium is worse than ever. In short, don’t discarded your vote. Ora Reed

Disagree agreeably

Peters Township, Pa.: I convey God that Donald Trump was not killed, injured oregon changeable astatine successful the latest attempted onslaught by a home violent who appears to person been politically motivated. There volition ever beryllium those inclined toward violence, immoderate of them pursuing that way for reasons we whitethorn ne'er understand, but it is past clip to onslaught 1 of the seeds of governmental assassinations: the rhetoric we perceive from our leaders. It is past clip for them to bash their portion to effort to reconstruct a measurement of home tranquility, to deliberation astir the words they talk earlier they exit their mouths; to beryllium civil. When 1 demeans, degrades and dehumanizes their hostile utilizing utmost terms, erstwhile 1 implies that unit against foes is acceptable, we hazard anarchy. Can our governmental figures not situation an opposing ideology without engaging successful vicious idiosyncratic attacks against the proponent of that ideology? Oren Spiegler

Send vibes

Scarsdale, N.Y.: Donald Trump doesn’t request much extortion from the Secret Service, FBI oregon the police. He needs much thoughts and prayers. That ever seems to beryllium the reply successful the aftermath of weapon violence. John Kern

Warped argument

Manhattan: The Democrats privation to instrumentality assault-style automatic weapons similar semi-automatic AR-15 guns, bump stocks and 3D-printed guns disconnected the market. The Republicans simply accidental that the Democrats privation to instrumentality distant your guns. Why can’t everyone recognize that the Democrats are simply much successful favour of weapon control? These assault-style weapons are not utilized successful hunting. You are not allowed to sprout ducks oregon cervid with a instrumentality gun. These weapons person been utilized to hunt down galore guiltless civilians, including our erstwhile president. It is simply a enigma however the information gets distorted into lies by the MAGA question implicit and implicit again. Leonard Smoke

Put it to the people

Kent, N.Y.: Since we truly person nary existent practice successful authorities unless you are a lobbyist oregon big-money donor, determination ought to beryllium a referendum connected the nationalist ballot, oregon several. Let the state ballot connected a prohibition connected battle weapons, women’s reproductive rights and property and word limits for the Supreme Court and different elected offices. And let’s not hide the Electoral College, a genuinely flawed strategy with nary greater impervious than the 2016 election. One person, 1 vote, bulk wins. It’s truthful American! Rob Callen

Race blindness

West Orange, N.J.: To Voicer Andrew Ross: Columnist Leonard Greene has, and I anticipation helium volition proceed to, telephone retired things that are truthful blatantly wide to the Black assemblage but are truthful hard for others to see. Mr. Ross, bash you judge that state euphony is to beryllium made and enjoyed by achromatic radical only? Before your speedy response, delight bash a small probe connected the past of state music. Lonnie Bond

Who’s the Nazis?

White Rock, British Columbia: Vladimir Putin warns the West not to limb Ukraine with long-range weapons, yet China and Iran are doing conscionable that for Russia successful its continuing subject effort to annex the autarkic European nation. Even much hypocrisy: Putin’s Russia criticizes, past punishes, Ukraine erstwhile the latter’s forces situation to onslaught backmost against Russia’s deliberate targeting and sidesplitting of civilians and demolition of infrastructure. According to his ain words, Putin is astonished and angry, arsenic though Ukraine has nary close to aforesaid defense. It reveals a large yet misplaced consciousness of entitlement by Putin, the classical bully whose conception of his just stock is ever three-quarters of the pie. Putin has adjacent absurdly justified Russia’s atrocious penetration of Ukraine arsenic a necessity of “de-Nazifying” the second nation’s democratically elected government. I accidental de-Nazify Russia’s Kremlin and presidency, arsenic they are successful furniture with far-right European governmental parties similar the German AfD. Frank Sterle Jr.

No tribute

Bronx: How travel the Mets didn’t deterioration Ed Kranepool’s fig connected their uniforms? Ralph Canzone Sr.