To the editor: Just when I was beginning to see Jonah Goldberg's columns as more credibly argued than in the past, he botches his piece on Ohio Sen. JD Vance, the Republican vice presidential nominee.
First, he claims that the “panic” over Project 2025 is “exaggerated.” Have you read it?
And then she says that former President Trump “has effectively become pro-choice on abortion, at least during the election.” Does Goldberg not realize that the innately dishonest Trump would backtrack on day one of a second term?
Vance would make a terrible vice president, but that would make him a perfect match for the would-be dictator he shares the ticket with.
Someone should throw a bucket of ice water on Goldberg's head to wake him up.
Marcy Miroff Rothenberg, Porter Ranch
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To the editor: Goldberg makes a strong case for why Trump gets away with actions and pronouncements that backfire when imitated by his acolytes: because he is perceived as more of an entertainer than a politician.
That thought was always in the back of my mind, but it was not compelling enough to allow his followers, many of whom I considered normal people, to get away with their responsibility for supporting him.
What really reinforces the idea is when Goldberg makes the comparison between Trump and Vance.
By lacking convictions of his own or abandoning them altogether, Vance makes Trump's ideas look stupid. He faces a lot of criticism when he expresses the same ideas or when he presents his own versions.
Whether this helps or hurts Trump remains to be seen. I'm counting on the duo's supporters to come to their senses before they get to the polls.
Lynn Lorenz, Newport Beach
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To the editor: Vance is absolutely right about one thing: our hopes and dreams for our children and grandchildren are what drive us to imagine what government should look like. Government can provide opportunities and resources for the future; that's what it does best.
What he seems to have no idea about is caring about young people unless they carry his own genetic material, which is simply an exercise in narcissism.
None of us will live in a future that is not created and populated by many, many other people's children. We need to care about all of them and enact policies that give them hope and a future.
Linda Falcao, North Wales, Pennsylvania.
