To the editor: Columnist Robin Abcarian is very nonchalant and nonchalant when she says, “It may take four unpleasant years, but believe me, the pendulum will eventually swing back to normal. It's always like that.” (“Don't fall into total despair, Harris supporters. There was good news on election night,” editorial, Nov. 7)
Four years is a long time during which great damage can be done to women's rights and their reproductive freedom. Four years is a long time in which the rights of immigrants and their families can be trampled.
We need to find ways to protest and resist now and not wait for the pendulum to swing back to “normal.”
Gail Chabran, Whittier
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To the editor: Abcarian reminds readers that “when politicians go too far, voters push them toward the center.” I totally agree.
What she, Vice President Kamala Harris, and the vast majority of the media don't understand is that this election validates their words. The American people loudly repudiated a party that oversaw the prosecution of its primary political opponent in multiple state and federal courts. He labeled him and his more than 70 million supporters fascists, Nazis and trash, and ignored the will of 14 million Democratic primary votes to crown Harris the nominee.
Abcarian writes: “The pendulum will eventually swing back to normal.” He has already done it.
Victoria De Felice, Irvine
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To the editor: I enjoyed and found hope in Abcarian's article about not falling into total despair. There were some groundbreaking gains for Democrats in this election, albeit small ones.
With the Republicans' overwhelming victories, I am reminded of the expression: “Give them enough rope and they will hang themselves.” Abcarian puts it more politely, saying that Americans will soon tire of the inevitable chaos and cruelty of a second Trump administration.
Either way, I think the next four years are going to be a debacle. My only hope is that it is the people at the top who suffer, not ordinary Americans.
David Tempest, Mar Vista
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To the editor: Abcarian writes: “Americans have elected, for the second time, a deranged, misogynistic, racist strongman for president.”
It is precisely these ad hominem insults that contributed to the re-election of former President Trump. Abcarian's vituperative attacks on Trump are now ineffective and irrelevant, because he won the battle and now she is helping him win the war.
Giuseppe Mirelli, Los Angeles
