Letters to the Editor: Finally, the Democrats are done with being pushed around

To the editor : We’re in for an exciting new season in the nonstop war between the Republican Bad Boys Club and the Democratic Nice Guys Bleeding Hearts team ( “Newsom calls for special November election to block Trump from ‘rigging’ 2026 midterms,” Aug. 14).

The Bad Boys, currently captained by the baddest Bad Boy, President Trump, have long dominated the field, their star players scoring almost at will against Dem defenses that generally are no stronger than murmured appeals to reason and morality.

What’s new is that the Nice Guys have started to rumble. They’re leading their supporters away from tired old tactics, like the one Robert Frost saw half a century ago: “A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.”

The Democrats’ bench appears to be strengthen