Readers sound off on political engagement, Democrats' failings and funding the MTA

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

60% : That's fine, because Trump will make the rest of the country California-proof.
53% : Trump is as well, but more a "con" as in conspiracy, his victory the product of close cooperation with "con-federates," not luck.
42% : You ended the article with the observation that under four years of Trump's last presidency, the MTA received only about $77 million in discretionary federal grants, whereas under President Biden it was $2 billion -- 26 times more than what we received from Trump.
38% : As a Democrat and someone who disagrees with Trump on just about every issue, including his vulgar behavior, I was at least comforted to know that the election went smoothly and decisively.
30% : Irwin CantosWhiting, N.J.: To Voicer Vin Morabito: A big thanks for a great laugh about the dangers of Trump during this very contentious time.
29% : Similarly, your charge that the "broadcast media has failed repeatedly to reveal Trump" seems to omit the frequent coverage of this mendacious, clownishly glitzy, racist New Yorker since the 1980s, and the extended hearings and impeachments that revealed some key co-conspirators and the recent U.S. Supreme Court decisions that exposed others.
26% : I'm also glad there will be a peaceful transfer of power, unlike the mayhem, lies and violence that occurred after the 2020 election thanks to the sore losers that Trump and his misguided and gullible followers are.
23% : Trump won mostly because he was allowed to lie nonstop about an invasion of pet-eating murderers flooding into the country and to say the economy was worse than when he left office, when the economy actually tanked because of his first term.
20% : Before Trump takes office with the power to halt congestion pricing and its purpose of generating crucial MTA funding, Hochul must end her illegal pause of it and ensure that our public transit system has the funding to update its outdated infrastructure, to expand and to continue to serve New Yorkers and our metro area's economy.

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