Getting past the urge to reduce all politics to existential conflict.

Readers criticize President Trump’s harsh speech. Also: Jimmy Kimmel’s return, and the F.C.C.’s threats; women in Congress; politics at the E.P.A.

He’s got the whole world in his hands.

That’s often not been the case in recent years.

Tit for tat, forever and ever.

Where are the true believers in free speech untainted by the stain of politics?