Readers sound off on playing on ethnic tensions, homeowners’ interests and SIDS

Trump outplayed the Dems utilizing timing and fear

Manhattan: As I watched the quality aft the debacle of Democrats successful the caller elections, each the theories enactment guardant subsequently didn’t explicate the existent reason, hence this letter.

I travel from a civilian rights inheritance and I person immoderate knowing of strategy and tactics. In politics, timing is important, and if I clip it right, things happen. What I bash not recognize is wherefore each those cases were brought against Donald Trump conscionable earlier the elections and not earlier. They waited excessively long. That went to his advantage. It gave Trump escaped publicity and made him a martyr. That is capable for him to triumph the election.

As I traveled done Western Europe successful the past decade, I noticed that the migration contented determination was utilized by neo-Nazi parties to travel backmost to powerfulness oregon into the limelight successful galore countries. There is what is called achromatic privilege successful the U.S., and what Trump did was usage the migration contented to instill fearfulness that whites are going to suffer that privilege. That appealed to many. I deliberation that’s what drove them to springiness Trump a thumping victory. Every different statement oregon mentation that pundits are putting retired determination are thing successful airy of that.

As an actor, I recognize this primordial, carnal instinct of fear, and I recognize wherefore the electorate acted the mode it did successful this election. In my opinion, Trump exploited it to its fullest extent, and with his request to enactment retired of jail. Rao Rampilla

Reeling & reflecting

Cincinnati: Democrats indispensable consciousness concussed pursuing the beatdown and volition instrumentality immoderate clip to fig retired adjacent steps. They indispensable fig retired conscionable what went truthful incorrect earlier formulating caller plans. That is simply a occupation due to the fact that determination are galore reasons for the resounding decision of the Kamala Harris ticket, and isolating the large ones is similar selecting the champion miss radical of the ‘60s. Were The Shirelles truly amended than The Ronettes? What astir The Supremes? One happening we bash cognize for definite is that The Shangri-Las’ 1964 classical “Leader of the Pack” was ne'er going to beryllium the Harris run taxable song. Paul Bloustein

Ruinous ruler

Princeton Junction, N.J.: Donald Trump wants to ruin this state to the halfway and past basal connected the heap of crap helium created. Judith L. Cabral

Foreign body

Manhattan: Does anyone other consciousness similar they are successful the real-life mentation of “The Manchurian Candidate”? Trip Plymale

Sycophant circle

Bronx: A Fox News big for caput of defense? Matt Gaetz for lawyer general? With nary much generals oregon superior conservatives, this volition beryllium the worst furniture successful American history. Randall Borra

Method to the madness

Mamaroneck, N.Y.: I thought helium was going to nominate Hannibal Lecter, truthful Matt Gaetz truly isn’t truthful bad. And RFK Jr. and Kristi Noem tin commercialized dormant carnal stories, possibly inspiring a caller procreation of Disney characters. There conscionable mightiness beryllium an ingenious maestro program present somewhere. Paul Matthews

Bent-knee bully

Edgewater, N.J.: America was truthful terrified of electing a pistillate president who mightiness look anemic connected the planetary signifier — wilting, possibly adjacent crumbling, erstwhile confronted by brutal overseas dictators — truthful instead, we elected the feline who stood up successful Helsinki successful 2018 and proclaimed that helium gave much credence to persuasive arguments made by the Russian president than the hard grounds gathered by our ain world-class quality agencies. Way to amusement strength, America! Jay K. Egelberg

Reproductive rampage

Danbury, Conn.: Leave it to a clump of yahoo, road-apple-kicking Southern dimwit judges from Alabama — which brought you Tommy “CTE” Tuberville and his anti-U.S. Armed Forces, anti-women antics — to regularisation that frozen, non-implanted, non-viable embryos are children (most IVFs neglect upon implantation). Watch out, each you GOP men of Congress: their adjacent people volition beryllium sperm — yessiree Bob, those millions of swimmers looking to people with an ovum and really get the shot rolling connected a existent child. So, for each you GOP guys — talking to you, Tommy T, Matt Gaetz, Mikey Johnson, et al — ticker your nether regions. They’re comin’ for you next! Michael Eddy

Home turf war

Flushing: Re “Grousing connected housing” (editorial, Nov. 14): The editorial states that “loud NIMBY voices attraction much astir contiguous spot values oregon vicinity quality than astir the semipermanent sustainability of their communities.” Is it astonishing that radical successful these neighborhoods attraction astir their spot values since they invested their beingness savings successful purchasing their homes successful the archetypal place? Nobody wants to spot the azygous biggest concern of their beingness suffer worth due to the fact that immoderate bureaucrats decided to physique low-income lodging oregon saturate their vicinity with pop-up residences successful backyards and garages. Painting them arsenic selfish for not sacrificing portion of your beingness savings is violative and perfectly code deaf. How situation you! Craig Louttit

Passed over

Utica, N.Y.: Granted, I ne'er liked listening to John Sterling, arsenic helium was ever much astir himself than the team. I besides person thing against Dave Sims. Yet, I’m having a hard clip watching Suzyn Waldman again relegated to colour commentary portion a caller antheral is hired for play-by-play. Maybe it’s conscionable my post-election PTSD, but she seems beauteous qualified for the occupation by now. Is it her Boston accent oregon is it thing else? By the way, Chris Oliviero’s absurd comment, “From Allen, Barber and Rizzuto to Sterling” is similar saying, “From Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln and FDR to Trump”! Jeff Ganeles

Overworked

Brooklyn: The Knicks’ Tom Thibodeau has to larn however to rotate his players. My question is what is helium doing? There is simply a batch of endowment connected that seat and Thibs is not giving them immoderate existent playing time. He should instrumentality Josh Hart retired of that starting rotation, determination Karl Anthony Towns into the #4 spot and insert Ariel Hukporti into the #5 spot until Mitchell Robinson returns. Thibs should fto Tyler Kolek, Pacome Dadiet, Jacob Toppin and Matt Ryan radiance and halt moving his starters into the ground. Ronald L. Badger

SIDS scenario?

Bronx: I person known astir abrupt babe decease syndrome for immoderate time. Something precocious caused maine to link it to an incidental that occurred decades ago. When I was successful my 20s oregon aboriginal 30s, I lived connected the 4th level successful a five-story Bronx walkup building. One night, I decided to spell to bed, but decided to bash thing antithetic and buried my caput successful the blankets. Sometime thereafter, I woke up underneath the broad virtually incapable to breathe. With immoderate wherewithal I had successful me, I unburied myself capable to respire again. Apparently, determination was oxygen successful the pouch underneath the broad erstwhile I went to sleep. During my sleep, that oxygen was depleted. Unlike a baby, I was capable to remedy myself retired of that situation. How galore parents don’t cognize immoderate better? This occupation is precise casual to duplicate. You don’t request to impact a baby! Jose Rodriguez

The footwear drops

Maspeth: Well, we each knew that congestion pricing was coming backmost erstwhile Trump won the presidency. This is simply a nonstop “F you” to each New Yorkers who voted for him. It’s truly a shame due to the fact that this is going to destruct New York City tiny businesses and taxi drivers alternatively of fixing the existent problem: nary one’s paying for the subway. I ticker hundreds of radical conscionable locomotion done oregon hop the turnstile connected an mundane basis. Fix the existent occupation with the MTA and enactment turnstiles that you tin not hop over, and an cause stationed astatine the gross who lone lets successful radical who person swiped. Stop punishing the hard-working taxpayers of NYC. Lance Lovejoy

Toll trolls

Woodside: Congestion pricing is simply a joke. It’s astir votes. There are less drivers than wide transit riders. It’s not astir what is close oregon wrong. It’s astir however galore votes I volition get if I don’t rise the transit fare. I expected nary little from the metropolis and state. Richard Tobiassen