To the editor: I spent the late 1970s and 1980s closely connected to Ronald Reagan, a temperate and wonderful person. My father and brother were federal agency executive appointees of President Reagan, my mother an assistant to the president for eight years in the White House; I served as treasurer of his political action committee from 1982 to 1986.
No one would compare President Trump to Ronald Reagan, or to many of the “founders” of the country (“The Founding Fathers would’ve gotten rid of Trump long ago,” May 19).
However, political leaders in any era are a product of their time. And, were it not for Trump, millions of Americans would have been trampled on while the country-club politicians in charge of the Republican Party fiddled in the minority.
Columnist Jonah Goldberg neglects to recognize founder Thomas Jefferson’s acts and those of several other presidents that were carried out without them seeking congressional approval. Instead, he serves as a vivid example of country-club concession to the political mob whose one goal is absolute and permanent power.
Kip Dellinger, Santa Monica
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To the editor: It’s getting really tiresome reading Goldberg’s scribes — and actually agreeing with him. Here’s to another two years and eight months of this.
Robert Bruce, Long Beach