To the Editor:
Re “Trump Says Some Migrants Are ‘Not Folks’ and Predicts a ‘Blood Bathtub’ if He Loses” (nytimes.com, March 16):
In a marketing campaign speech in Ohio on Saturday, former President Donald Trump mentioned that if he didn’t get elected, “it’s going to be a blood tub for the nation.”
His warning was not a prediction. This was a brazen risk: If the election disappoints Mr. Trump and his followers, they’ll revolt. Mr. Trump is perhaps more and more inarticulate, however the peril is evident in his personal phrases.
In Trump v. Anderson, the Supreme Court docket just lately dodged the query of whether or not Mr. Trump’s conduct earlier than and on Jan. 6, 2021, made him an insurrectionist throughout the which means of the 14th Modification. After Saturday’s speech, additional evasion can be unconscionable. Mr. Trump’s use of the phrase “blood tub” was not exaggeration for impact or bombast. It was easy menace, a direct step towards sedition. American democracy’s future is at stake.
Mr. Trump has successfully secured a significant occasion’s nomination for president. It can quickly be as much as the voters to acknowledge the danger and stop a reign of terror. The entire world is watching.
Steven S. Berizzi
Norwalk, Conn.
To the Editor:
I cannot be threatened. The risk by Donald Trump that if he’s not elected, “it’s going to be a blood tub” demonstrates definitively, undeniably and unequivocally that he’s not match to be president of america.
That The New York Instances did not make this risk its lead story does a grave disservice to our nation.
Joan Kass
Chilmark, Mass.
To the Editor:
Had President Biden instructed the world that we must always anticipate a “blood tub” if he loses the election, as Donald Trump did in Dayton, Ohio, on Saturday, there would have been clamoring of concern and denunciation by his Republican opponents. The place is the outrage about Mr. Trump’s use of such language? The place are the voices of purpose and restraint?
No Republican dares to criticize their fearless chief. Their profiles in cowardice are an appalling sight for all of the civilized world to see.
When will our populace come to their senses? Conscientious, civilized folks in all places should reject this irresponsible bombast.
Mr. Trump is recklessly endangering each man, lady and little one in our nation. He has gone too far and should be stopped.
H. James Quigley Jr.
Laguna Woods, Calif.
To the Editor:
Au contraire, Mr. Trump. If you happen to lose this yr’s November election, there can be dancing within the streets and champagne corks popped “the likes of which you’ve by no means seen.”
You’ll be able to financial institution on it.
Lois Berkowitz
Oro Valley, Ariz.
Orli and the Fox
To the Editor:
Re “What Does a 12 months Imply to a Grieving Guardian?,” by Sarah Wildman (Opinion visitor essay, March 17), concerning the first anniversary of the demise of her daughter Orli:
At dawn this morning, a fox crossed the street earlier than me. She turned, learning me, and I felt the stir of the brand new day’s magic. A number of hours later, I learn Ms. Wildman’s essay, with the digital headline “‘If You See a Fox and I’ve Died, It Will Be Me.’”
I used to be struck by the coincidence of getting simply seen “a vivid younger fox” and studying Ms. Wildman’s sensible and transferring story. It appeared proper to thank her for this present: Orli’s vivid younger spirit flowing from her mom’s aching coronary heart onto the web page.
I want I had met Orli. We might discuss foxes, take a look at fox images, learn passages from fox books. We might have shared how in the future a fox got here to us and by no means left, as Orli got here to me by means of her mom’s story, how we every got here to like foxes, as Orli herself will without end be beloved, a fantastic little one who’s eventually free to roam the intense universe.
Ellen Thornton
Atlantic Seaside, Fla.
It Was ‘Poisoning,’ Not an ‘Overdose’
To the Editor:
Re “In Fentanyl Deaths, Victims’ Households Say Phrase Alternative Issues” (entrance web page, March 11):
The heartbreaking story of 19-year-old Ryan Bagwell’s demise additional underscores the pressing have to reshape the narrative round drug-related fatalities. The excellence between “overdose” and “poisoning” will not be semantic; it displays the profound affect on households and caregivers grappling with loss.
Furthermore, the stigma related to “overdose” compounds the ache for grieving households. It unfairly implies private accountability and dependancy, perpetuating dangerous stereotypes. We should acknowledge that victims like Ryan had been unsuspecting casualties, not prepared individuals of their demise.
Household caregivers who are inclined to their family members as they wrestle with well being challenges, together with dependancy, perceive the severity of this disaster. Fentanyl, an artificial opioid exponentially stronger than heroin, is ravaging communities nationwide with a disproportionately greater deadly affect in American Indian, Alaska Native and Black populations.
Its presence in counterfeit capsules poses deadly dangers, as evidenced by Ryan’s case. The time period “poisoning” rightly emphasizes the victimhood of these unknowingly uncovered to this lethal substance.
Along with diligent treatment administration to forestall unintended publicity to potent substances like fentanyl, the entrance traces of this disaster require complete instruments, together with entry to all F.D.A.-approved brokers that reverse the results of an opioid overdose, to reply within the occasion of a fentanyl poisoning.
Marvell Adams Jr.
Baltimore
The author is the C.E.O. of the Caregivers Motion Community.
Class-Based mostly Admissions
To the Editor:
Re “What the Way forward for Admissions at Elite Faculties May Look Like,” by David Leonhardt (The Morning, March 3):
Within the wake of court docket selections whittling away affirmative motion, it’s changing into identified that class-based admissions insurance policies may also help keep racial variety at elite schools.
SAT scores, when used correctly, may also help admissions officers establish minority candidates who present nice potential for educational achievement. The take a look at itself was designed to fight exclusion at a time when Ivy League faculties had restrictive quotas on minority candidates.
Overcoming drawback is a respectable criterion for admission and important to efforts to diversify the coed physique.
Max Herman
Jersey Metropolis, N.J.
The author is an affiliate professor of sociology at New Jersey Metropolis College.
