To the Editor:

Re “Democrats Turn Focus to Trump’s Intentions in Ukraine Aid Freeze” (front page, Jan. 24):

Listening to Adam Schiff and other House managers over the past few days has restored hope that, although they are fated to lose the impeachment battle, we will win the war to return to decency. Their cogent truth- and fact-based explanations leave no doubt as to why the removal of President Trump is necessary for the maintenance of our ongoing experiment in democracy. Their lesson may fall on deaf ears in the Senate, but the American public is listening.

Tom Miller

Oakland, Calif.

To the Editor:

In electrical conduction there is such a thing as “overload,” when a surge of current beyond a circuit’s ability to respond to it can render that circuit inoperable.

The combined impeachment deliberations and the coverage of the Democratic primaries seem to be approaching “political overload” for some of us.

Let’s hope that this morning-to-midnight flow of political clashes doesn’t “overload” voters with so much confusion that they become politically “inoperable” in November and freeze in place the status quo.