Readers sound off on Trump’s victory, Democrats’ failures and Netanyahu’s warmaking

These are the reasons I voted for Donald Trump

Brooklyn: This predetermination reminds maine of the Reagan-Carter predetermination of 1980: It was expected to beryllium close; Ronald Reagan won successful a landslide. He did truthful due to the fact that helium ran against the worst president ever astatine that time. The caller worst, President Biden, is simply a figurehead and Trojan equine of the progressive left.

Inflation acknowledgment to excessive authorities indebtedness spending ($36 trillion nationalist debt) accrued to 9%. It is down to 2.5%, higher than nether Donald Trump. Prices person not travel down to pre-Biden levels. Americans’ idiosyncratic indebtedness — utilized to conflict ostentation — is astatine an all-time high. Americans inactive consciousness the pain.

My top interest is the penetration and infiltration of our country. We unrecorded successful fearfulness of going to Manhattan, oregon immoderate our favourite metropolis would be. Jocelyn Nungaray was raped and killed by amerciable immigrants. Laken Riley was raped and killed by an amerciable immigrant. This is the state your children and grandchildren volition inherit. Criminals released with nary bail to perpetrate crimes again, due to the fact that similar a tarantula, it’s what they do. Equally important, our nationalist information is astatine stake. Enemy overseas countries bash not fearfulness us, and they make immoderate acts of aggression they please. Biden, an aggravated aged man, feels helium has nary request to speech to Vladimir Putin, truthful the warfare betwixt Russia and Ukraine continues. Good presidents would person initiated diplomacy, putting speech idiosyncratic animosities for the bully of Ukraine and humanity. The Biden medication has failed astatine overseas leadership, and Kamala Harris can’t spot thing she would bash differently.

On Tuesday, I voted for Trump to the 2nd word helium truthful justly deserves, and who the American radical truthful desperately need. David DiBello

More of the same?

Kew Gardens: Well, the predetermination is yet implicit and present we’ll spot if the caller medication follows the accepted path. I archetypal voted successful the precocious 1960s and began noticing a chiseled pattern. If the Republicans won, they gave each the wealth to the rich, arsenic did Reagan, Bush begetter and son, and Trump. When the Democrats won, each the wealth went to the mediocre and societal services. The moving classes ne'er saw their lives improve. What volition the MAGA’s accidental 4 years from present erstwhile they are nary further along? Who volition they blasted then? I’ve said it earlier and it bears repeating: The 2 astir destructive organizations successful today’s America are politicians and fundamentalist religion. Jeff Pullen

Love lost

Hauppauge, L.I.: I truly didn’t deliberation each that hatred would win. Greg Arnold

Backlash

Ormond Beach, Fla.: The 2nd predetermination of Trump arsenic president of the United States is the earthy effect of the left’s highly politically correct, anti-white, anti-male and anti-America rhetoric. It turns retired that if you demonize the radical you disagree with, overgarment them arsenic racists and oppressors and archer them that immoderate and each of their successes are a effect of immoderate unearned privilege, they volition make a counterrevolution. He is the effect of their actions, their rhetoric and the individuality authorities that they person brought into the American governmental landscape. Progressive liberals, you person made your bed. Now, prevarication successful it. Charles Michael Sitero

Prepare for impact

Manhattan: Despite being portion of the astir palmy medication successful memory, contempt moving against a convicted felon, rapist, philanderer, liar and failed businessman, Harris lost. Was it due to the fact that she is simply a Black woman? What portion did men refusing to elite a pistillate play? Hard questions to reply oregon speech about. Now, America volition wage for its sins. The MAGA enactment controls each 3 branches of government. Women volition proceed to dice due to the fact that of the deficiency of needed aesculapian care. We volition spot costs rise, the banal marketplace fall, the shortage increase, rights taken distant and number communities endure from achromatic supremacy. Climate alteration volition proceed to ravage our towns and disruptions and chaos volition prevail. Cowardice succumbed to grievance; world succumbed to lies and distortion; hunger for powerfulness prevailed and the regularisation of instrumentality failed. The question present is volition New York State nonstop him to jail? Andre Carl Jones

Course corrected

Brooklyn: My cheeks hurt. So gladsome we’ll get backmost to moving America arsenic the satellite powerfulness that it needs to instrumentality to alternatively of fretting implicit bathrooms and pronouns. We’re acceptable for a pistillate to beryllium president, conscionable not this woman. God bless America and President Trump and his family. Joe Many

Lessons to beryllium learned

Manhattan: This predetermination wasn’t adjacent close. Trump gained crushed everywhere. He astir won New Jersey. It’s a profound humiliation and catastrophic decision for Democrats. They request to self-reflect. A batch of things they’re selling, astir nary 1 is buying. What is the acquisition for Democrats? The “woke stuff” was ne'er going to instrumentality extracurricular of Brooklyn and San Francisco. There is simply a cognition that Democrats person gone excessively acold near connected immoderate taste issues. Trump ran an advertisement stating: “Harris is for they/them. Trump is for you.” I don’t deliberation anyone peculiarly needs the word “Latinx.” Democrats person to admit that they indispensable alteration people oregon hazard losing the White House for a generation. Trump cobbled unneurotic a conjugation of working-class voters crossed racial/ethnic groups that represents a durable bulk if it sticks. Daniel Dolgicer

Time to unite

Malverne, L.I.: As I constitute this, Trump has captured a imaginable 312 electoral votes and much than 70 cardinal fashionable votes, astir 5 cardinal much than Harris, decisively giving him the White House, and helium volition beryllium the 47th president of the U.S. It seems that each the lies astir him by bequest media and Democrats person fallen connected deaf ears, arsenic radical saw done it. So, fto america present halt with the rhetoric and mendacious narratives astir MAGA and Trump and bring this state unneurotic truthful we tin beryllium stronger and greater than we’ve been. Dave Kalin

Funky numbers

Yorktown Heights, N.Y.: Is the feline who does the calculations of predetermination polls the aforesaid feline who’s successful complaint of analytics for the Chicago White Sox? Anthony Vegliante

Tax dodging

Merion Station, Pa.: Now that the predetermination is implicit I’m returning to the workforce, arsenic it won’t impact my Social Security check, which volition nary longer beryllium taxed. My lone question is whether to commencement moving for tips, which won’t beryllium taxed, oregon instrumentality a 40-hour-a-week occupation wherever my overtime won’t beryllium taxed. Paul L. Newman

Prophetic return

Woodland Park, N.J.: Despite each the disparaging articles and opinions of Trump by your readers and the media, helium inactive won the presidency. It’s been said that God works successful unusual ways, and passim the Bible, it has been shown that He loves a sinner — the worst kind, the better. Just look astatine the illustration of David, an adulterer and murderer, yet God appointed him king of the onshore of Israel and called him a antheral aft His ain bosom (1 Samuel 13-14; Acts 13-22). Seems to maine that Trump could beryllium the modern-day David. Melanie Noonan

Lethal holding pattern

Swarthmore, Pa.: Everyone agrees that Israel has a right, adjacent an obligation, to support its borders and ward disconnected and degrade the subject capableness of its enemies, including violent organizations similar Hamas and Hezbollah. But it present indispensable beryllium asked, erstwhile is capable enough? When does the spot demolition that’s reduced astir of Gaza to rubble and inflicted unimaginable horror, suffering and casualties to the radical who unrecorded there, spell from what tin beryllium considered a tenable retaliation to a cruel and beyond-the-pale response? The question that needs to beryllium addressed is whether Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is continuing the hostilities not to support his state but to fend disconnected his myriad ineligible worries that, if prosecuted, could onshore him successful prison. It present feels similar Netanyahu is much acrophobic with utilizing his continuing subject effect to support himself successful powerfulness and postpone the inevitable time of reckoning helium faces. Ken Derow

Design flaw

Middle Village: I paid $177.90 for 3 caller trash cans connected Aug. 29 to comply with the Nov. 12 deadline. They arrived, however, the 1 for the trash has astatine champion a flimsy integrative clip that immoderate rodent would beryllium capable chew through. Liz Wildner Smith