I want to thank President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris for calling Donald Trump to concede the election and show him, and his supporters, how a democracy is supposed to work.
The last election resulted in the violent Jan. 6 attempt to block a smooth transition, in which Trump was a catalyst.
I also want to remind those elected to Congress that it’s their job to act as a check and balance with the executive branch and honor their oaths of office to vote in accordance with the mandates of their constituents and defend the Constitution.
Checks and balances should control Trump’s power grab. However, Congress has compounded the situation when power-hungry politicians refuse to recognize their own leaders’ shortcomings. U.S. Rep. Carlos Giménez of Miami said on “This Week in South Florida” that we shouldn’t worry about Trump becoming a dictator, since Congress is there to ensure that doesn’t happen.
In addition, the Supreme Court is a check and balance for both the executive and legislative branches to ensure that they follow the “letter of the law” and not just rubber-stamp questionable decisions by those branches.
No one should be above the law. I would expect that standard from any justices, no matter who appointed them.
Rose Hobbs, Davie
The greatest comeback
Opposing Donald Trump’s administration is not going to do the Democratic Party any good.
Trump received 312 electoral college votes and close to 76 million popular votes. The American people overwhelmingly voted for change.
As a result, Trump won the election in the greatest historic comeback our nation has ever witnessed. To the chagrin of Democrats, more than half of the nation wanted what Trump was offering. But many Democratic leaders are hellbent and refuse to give voters what they want.
For their survival, Democrats need to start listening to the voices of the people, because if they intend to hold back the tide, it may cost them big-time in the midterm election. While change may be difficult to accept, this is how we grow as human beings and how we unite as a nation.
JoAnn Lee Frank, Clearwater
Protect our values
Not again! Four years of ego-soothing and four years of contagion. What’s happening to us? How in the world did we elect Trump?
Heaven, protect us from his appointees. May the next four years fly by and we survive it. Common sense and sound judgment can’t be legislated. Fellow Americans, remember what you stand for. Let’s not abandon our values.
Audrey Frieman, Pembroke Pines
Selective recall
I call it “selective remembering.”
I’m writing in response to a recent letter to the editor from Neal Bluestein of Boca Raton, titled “Historical Perspective.” The writer was commenting on the issues surrounding the current immigration problem. He stated that the Biden-Harris administration had encounters with 10.5 million immigrants in less than four years since they took office in 2021.
Here’s where selective remembering comes in.
If I remember correctly, in 2015, candidate Donald Trump made a promise that he was going to build a wall, and Mexico was going to pay for it (it never happened). I would then assume that this would fix the immigration problem, so that Biden and Harris wouldn’t have to deal with this issue. What happened to historical perspective? Here’s hoping this jogs your memories.
Jack Bloomfield, Coral Springs
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