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By Gail Collins and Bret Stephens
Ms. Collins and Mr. Stephens are opinion columnists. They communicate every week.
Bret Stephens: Gail, I’m heartbroken seeing the footage coming from Los Angeles. Lives, homes, businesses, monuments, neighborhoods. . . charred, destroyed, disappeared. I know that this necessarily has a political dimension and many reproaches to be thrown, but still be an opportunity for a not unusual goal.
Gail Collins: Absolutely. The whole world is united in pain.
However, once the fire is finally under control and we get past our initial stages of mourning and mourning, I truly believe that we want to deal with global warming and climate change, a phenomenon that our new president says no to Array
Bret: Yes, but it’s too early for political discussions and ideological score-settling, whether the alleged culprit is the climate update or DEI. For now, let Democrats and Republicans work together to give Angelenos what they need. Then we can fight for all this.
Gail: Agree. And we’ve got a lot of other stuff to fight about with the new Congress starting up. But we need to begin with — sigh — Donald Trump. I’m kinda satisfied with the outcome of his trial here in New York.
Bret: Say more.
Gail: You can’t send a man who has just been elected president to prison through other people who have been fully informed of his conviction on 34 counts of falsifying business records to cover up a sex scandal.
But giving him an unconditional discharge makes him the first felon ever to serve as president. Think that’ll be his footnote in history?
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