Postcard Writing Party — Let your voice be heard

Join fellow residents at a postcard writing party! Let your voice be heard! Please bring your neighbors and friends to a Postcard Writing Party hosted by the Property Owner Associations of Garden City on Monday, February 27, 7 –9 p.m., Stewart School cafeteria. Come to write notes to local elected officials to express your concerns and thoughts about development plans for a casino at Nassau Coliseum as well as the governor’s housing proposals.

The POAs will supply all of the items needed to get residents’ thoughts out and known by local representatives. The POAs will provide - postcards, pens, postage, addresses, sample comments, and even refreshments!

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Mr. Trump faces all sorts of possible roadblocks to the nomination, but he also has some major assets, even beyond his large number of GOP supporters.

For one thing, if you actually talk to mainstream Republicans (something much of the media doesn't do much), the vast majority, whether currently supportive of Mr. Trump or not, will tell you that they liked the overall policies and direction of his presidency. The GOP faithful like his overall economic policies, including a tax cut, and the good economic times, at least prior to COVID. They mostly like the aggressive, America First tone of Mr. Trump’s foreign policy, his recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital, his pressuring European allies to contribute to their defense and the lack of new armed conflicts. Almost all Republicans like his immigration policies that attempted, with considerable success, to end the widespread chaos at the border. And, even if not unanimously in favor of the Dobbs decision, most Republicans very much like that Mr. Trump's cemented a conservative majority on the Supreme Court.

Many in the GOP also like that Mr. Trump has actually done the job of President and believe he has the large personality needed for success.

Of course, even among Republicans, there are many other opinions of Mr. Trump that go beyond agreement with his polices and admiring aspects of his personality.

We start with the question of electability. There is a general understanding among GOP primary voters that Mr. Trump is an unusually divisive leader. Although many will tell you that they can live with a few nasty Tweets, there is also a recognition of that he has almost no appeal among Democrats and a good num-

And then there is the continuing hangover from the 2020 election, Mr. Trump’s continuing refusal to accept the results, the January 6 riot and most recently, the controversy over Mr. Trump’s retention of documents at Mar-a-Lago. While Republicans are mixed about Mr. Trump’s (in my view unsubstantiated) allegations, there is a general feeling that the party needs to look forward rather than backwards. If Mr. Trump is indicted, all bets are off. Many in the party, including nonsupporters of Mr. Trump, will nevertheless rally around him and regard an indictment as a profoundly undemocratic act of his political opponents. Of course, there always be the question of whether Mr. Trump can effectively campaign while being in jail or (more likely) subject to bail conditions.

Mr. Trump does have a strong potential opponent in Florida governor Ron DeSantis. Mr. DeSantis was overwhelmingly reelected last year, with strong showings all over the state, including in Hispanic majority Miami-Dade County. His strong stand against what many Republican voters regard as overkill measures during the pandemic, as well as against “woke” education, has already given him a strong national following. Of course, Mr. DeSantis is a first time candidate on the national stage and it is not clear how well he will perform.

Beyond Mr. Trump and Mr. DeSantis, there are numerous other aspirants, including former South Carolina governor and United Nations ambassador Nikki Haley, who announced this week. One danger for opponents of Mr. Trump is that a large number of non-Trump candidates in the primaries easily could divide the vote.

In any event, there are no shortage of intriguing scenarios as the nomination contest begins to shape up.