LETTER: Will primary voters deliver an anti-democracy candidate?

To Ozaukee Press:

There is a saying that all politics is local. Politics, a set of beliefs, behaviors, and ideals, is also individual and trickles down from national to local areas.

Next week Iowa GOP caucuses converge for presidential preferences. Iowa is a border state. Its national politics impacts locally.

There are choices. Trump, with three criminal charges pending, campaigns for a dictatorship, dismantling the Constitution, shutting down media and the press, using martial law against assemblies of the people, jailing and executing members of the military. He takes credit for eliminating women’s health care rights. He states he will seek retribution, vengeance for you, but his psychological projection is for himself, not for America’s future. Yes, democracy is on the ballot.

Nikki Haley states she is pro-life but does not judge anyone for pro-choice beliefs. She forgot the Civil War was a product of hundreds of years of slavery. She states she’ll pardon Trump for insurrection and traitorous activity.

Ron DeSantis uses taxpayer money to transport migrants to other states; he battles businesses supporting individual rights. His legislators rewrite history and ban books in school libraries. His secretary of health discredits Covid vaccines. Is this America’s future?

Chris Christie uses his ideals to push against former administrative election corruption, advocates for states’ rights and is not afraid to be factual and challenging.

While there is a GOP denialism of economic growth, the U.S. economy is booming. The former administration increased U.S. national debt by 39% by giving tax cuts to the very rich. Want to go back to the future?

Will voters in the GOP presidential primaries deliver a candidate with autocratic tendencies?

It will be interesting to observe how Iowa GOP caucus mindsets flow across into Wisconsin political waters for the April primary, after New Hampshire and South Carolina. It will be after Groundhog Day, when most voters are hopefully awake, but it could be over by then. The biggest challenge of the 2024 elections is whether voters choose to destroy American democracy.

Ken Bretl

Fredonia

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