To the Editor:
Re “President Ousts Top U.S. General as Part of Purge” (entrance web page, Feb. 23):
Let’s be clear about one factor: The actions taken to take away the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Employees, Gen. Charles Q. Brown Jr., and different leaders on the Pentagon have little to do with what you report as “the president’s insistence that the army’s management is just too mired in range points.”
That is, as an alternative, the motion of a rising dictatorship. Each dictator is aware of that she or he will need to have a army that owes its allegiance to the dictator, to not the citizenship or to a rustic’s structure. This motion is a blatant try and destroy the custom of an unbiased, apolitical army service in america and exchange it with a army that can do Caesar’s bidding.
Amongst all the chief orders, courtroom filings and public furor, I discover this motion to be presumably the only most harmful motion the administration and its backers have taken. It lays the groundwork for the entire destruction of our Republic. We might be sensible to pay cautious consideration.
Douglas Haskin
Carrollton, Texas
To the Editor:
Through the presidential marketing campaign, Donald Trump supplied very chilly consolation for many who had been greater than anxious about his authoritarian aspirations and admirations when he stated he could be a dictator solely on “Day 1.”
We at the moment are previous the 30-day mark of that Longest Day. Mr. Trump has already compiled a dictatorial record that features his issuance of a diktat ending birthright citizenship and his persevering with violation of the Impoundment Management Act of 1974 and different statutes grounded in Article I of the Structure.
Now he has added a brand new entry together with his blatant politicization of the Protection Division by means of the firing of the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Employees, Gen. Charles Q. Brown Jr., and others within the high management of the Pentagon.
Clearly, by breaking by means of the guardrails of legal guidelines and norms which have sustained our democratic Republic, even through the instances of its biggest stress, Mr. Trump has demonstrated that his presidency is unsafe at any pace.
Chuck Cutolo
Westbury, N.Y.
Refuse to Obey
It is likely to be tougher for him to invent eventualities that assist his reckless pronouncements and allegiances. He is likely to be compelled to acknowledge that the seed of tyranny will not be propagated by anybody and everybody who has ever slighted him or refused him reward or revenue, however by the self-interest that he so horrifyingly demonstrates. Most disturbingly it has develop into the coin of different undemocratic realms.
A Ukrainian pal answered a letter of apology and remorse: “The whole lot shall be OK in the long run. If it’s not OK, it’s not the tip.” Perhaps.
It’s tough to quote one headline because the impetus for this letter. Daily we’re confronted with new situations of President Trump’s impetuous mandates upheld by a Congress gripped by self-interest and cowardice.
We’re a inhabitants in shock, treading to remain above the chaos that he so ably wields. With a lot to protest we will solely assist these just like the U.S. prosecutors Danielle Sassoon and Hagan Scotten, and others, who’ve refused to obey.
Rebecca Okrent
Wellfleet, Mass.
The Supreme Courtroom’s Dilemma
To the Editor:
Re “Roberts’s Entire Life Has Led to This Moment,” by Jeff Shesol (Opinion visitor essay, Feb. 23), about probably coming courtroom instances regarding the Trump’s administration actions:
The Supreme Courtroom stands on the horns of a dilemma. If the courtroom guidelines towards the administration, it dangers President Trump’s ignoring its determination and thereby obviates the courtroom’s authority and precipitates a constitutional disaster.
Then again, if the Supreme Courtroom fails to uphold the regulation and the Structure, it makes a folly of our democracy.
Even when an government order is patently illegal, our extremely politicized courtroom is unlikely to danger Mr. Trump’s rejection of its rulings. It probably will largely facet with the administration, however with an occasional small victory for the rule of regulation.
Yet one more favored technique of the courtroom is to narrowly rule on a case and ship it again to the decrease courts for additional adjudication, leaving appreciable ambiguity in its wake.
Stanley A. Rubin
Santa Monica, Calif.
Youngsters Will Pay
To the Editor:
Re “What the Trump Era Looks Like for Disabled Students in K-12” by Jessica Grose (e-newsletter, nytimes.com, Feb. 12):
The assaults on the Division of Training by the Trump administration and the so-called Division of Authorities Effectivity, led by Elon Musk, are per the MAGA motion’s broader assault on authorities.
However it’s made even worse by their toxically simplistic method to studying and psychology. Of their world there is just one sort of learner and solely two outcomes: success or failure. The ideas of neurodiversity and studying incapacity don’t match inside their slender worldview, and neither do the hundreds of thousands of American youngsters who take part in particular schooling.
These youngsters shall be among the many most susceptible casualties of a totally carried out MAGA-DOGE agenda.
Joseph Moldover
Wellesley, Mass.
The author is a developmental neuropsychologist.
A Firm’s Earnings, and Its Social Accountability
To the Editor:
Re “D.E.I. Comes and Goes, but Focus on Profit Is Constant, by Jeff Sommer (Methods column, Sunday Enterprise, Feb. 23):
Mr. Sommer is appropriate: Milton Friedman allowed that companies could correctly fake to embrace trendy social causes if cloaking their actions in that manner will enhance their earnings.
Mr. Sommer might need additionally famous how Professor Friedman’s precept of shareholder capitalism results in fascinating social ends as effectively.
Take the instance of the sign up most resort rooms urging visitors to reuse towels to assist the atmosphere. In all chance, these within the C-suite don’t have any specific concern concerning the atmosphere however are literally centered on decreasing laundry bills to extend the resort’s earnings.
Lo and behold, the corporate fulfills its sole social accountability, to maximise earnings, and the atmosphere is a winner.
Kenneth A. Margolis
Chappaqua, N.Y.
The author is a labor and employment lawyer.
Attempt a Little Tenderness
To the Editor:
Re “Tenderness as an Act of Resistance,” by Margaret Renkl (Opinion visitor essay, nytimes.com, Feb. 10):
Ms. Renkl’s essay simply created a peaceful, a signpost in my coronary heart and thoughts that can information me by means of these horrific years forward. As we speak, a fiercely chilly wind is ripping down the Columbia River gorge that I can really feel by means of the partitions of my humble trailer residence. My Shih Tzu Teddy has his ears blown again, whereas my eyes and nostril run.
That actuality grounds me. Ms. Renkl’s writings are at all times grounding, too. I’m so grateful.
Laura Burnett
Portland, Ore.
