In the last few decades, significant legislation from the GOP has been about power. The GOP abolished the Fairness Doctrine under Reagan and established a falsely titled Citizen’s United doctrine with a backlashing GOP Congress during Obama’s second term. Those two legislations alone have enabled corporate takeover of government and the growth of networks like FOX that do not have to be held accountable for false reporting. GOP leadership has jockeyed around rules and regulations looking for ways to establish certain victory, no matter what the actual results of what they claim to be doing actually are.

Now the core leaders around this party are all Trumplicans, not Republicans. They have gathered and planned around the Heritage Foundation, another patriotic sounding, falsely named organization, to create project 2025, which none of the more than 100 Trumplicans involved claim to know what is in it. Just Read it. It is a roadmap for totalitarian government, by and for the GOP. It is a roadmap quite similar to Putin’s actions.

It is not whether I like or don’t like the values or desires of our GOP local hopefuls that turns me away from considering a vote for any of them. It is the obvious direction of the party leadership. Today, what “trickles down” is not a better way of doing business, but corruption, falsehoods, mockery and pretense. Unless and until the party can remove Trump and his gun-toting MAGAs from the divisive march to totalitarian ethics, I will not vote for any Republican. I will, however, welcome and include those Republicans who have found the courage denounce Trump and project 2025 for what they are.

The DNC nomination offered such a different message and vision. It made me so proud to see that the USA was finally coming to grips with its prejudices and mistakes of the past. It was obvious that the party recognizes and works to fix what is wrong, and offers constructive solutions, and more than just loud, nasty rhetoric. What Biden has done for the economy and the backbone workers of this country is working, and what Harris/Walz has to offer is by far a better world.

Rob Demic

Bristol