To the Editor:z25

Re “Don’t Surrender and Call It Compromise,” by Jamelle Bouie (column, Dec. 22):

Isn’t Mr. Bouie burned out on the rancor yet? The fury over every Donald Trump musing? The barrage of fund-raising emails and doomsday scenarios triggered by cabinet nominations or policy suggestions?

As a Democratic voter who donated money, wrote postcards and traveled out of state to knock on doors for Harris-Walz, I say we need to step back. Let’s see what transpires versus imagining the worst and tying ourselves into tighter knots.

If the Trump administration unleashes the mayhem and pain we expect, let his voters witness, experience and repent for what they’ve done. If that chaos doesn’t happen, any catastrophizing by Democrats will appear unwarranted and thus be self-defeating. Either way, circumspection will set the party on firmer ground to claw back legitimacy in the midterms and beyond.

Christi WhittemoreCosta Mesa, Calif.

To the Editor:

I totally agree with Jamelle Bouie. I am a Democrat, and the Democratic Party makes me furious.

Some Democrats want to work with a felonious incoming president and find common ground. There is none. Donald Trump was supported by billionaires and voted in by a bewitched electorate who believed his lies. His goals are tax cuts for the wealthy and tariffs for the rest of us. Does that sound democratic?

The Democrats should do what Senator Mitch McConnell did to former President Barack Obama. Mr. Obama came into office naïve, thinking he could work across the aisle. Mr. McConnell’s goal was to make Mr. Obama a one-term president. He didn’t succeed in that, but he made it impossible for Mr. Obama to achieve his full potential as president.

“I welcome the chance to open a new chapter,” Mr. Biden said in the Oval Office. “The U.A.E. is a nation of trailblazers always looking, always looking to the future, always making big bets, and that’s something our countries have in common and our people have in common.”

Donald J. Trump did not mention Mr. Robinson once at a campaign event in Wilmington, N.C., on Saturday, and several Trump fans who attended said they understood why it was necessary to distance Mr. Trump from Mr. Robinson. The former president endorsed Mr. Robinson in March and held a fund-raiser for him at his home in Palm Beach, Fla., last year.

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