Stop the anti-Trump hysteria

Re “Protect the right to protest,” editorial, Feb. 14

The bias of The Times’ editorial writers has blinded them to such a degree that they don’t understand simple language anymore.

In this editorial, White House adviser Stephen Miller is quoted as saying that “the powers of the president to protect our country are very substantial and will not be questioned.” This statement is criticized in the harshest possible terms, based on the premise that what Miller really said was that “the policies and statements of a president should not and must not be open to second-guessing.”

But Miller’s statement as quoted in this editorial says absolutely nothing about policies being “unquestionable”; it simply refers to the executive branch’s fully legitimate power to implement them only. In other words, the editorial becomes nonsensical because instead of addressing the issue reasonably, it is actually arguing with its own misrepresentation of Miller’s words. Mark Kashper Los Angeles

When I read The Times’ characterization of Miller’s comments as being transcribed from “The Idiot’s Guide to Authoritarianism,” I laughed out loud. But as I completed that first paragraph of the editorial, I was no longer laughing.

Instead, I was horrified by Miller’s declaration that the power of president “will not be questioned.”

We’ve entered the warped world of President Trump, wherein our best hope of enduring this wretched administration and its putrid philosophies is to count on its incompetence. To quote our own dear leader, “Sad!” Ben Miles Huntington Beach