The Democrats smirk and frown upon their own first principles America thrives when it has two strong opposing political parties

Having a Black man swearing in a white woman to the highest court in the land should have been applauded by all who favor minority rights. Yet, only the Democrats, who have supposedly always promoted minority rights, saw a problem with the ceremony.

Igor Shpudejko, Goodyear

As the nation votes in unprecedented numbers prior to Election Day, reasonable people can assume this election will be a referendum on the incumbent Donald Trump.

If the cycle truly is a wave election that will result in monumental gains for Democrats in local, state and national victories, the question I have is what will become of the once proud party of Lincoln and Reagan, who spoke of America as “the shining city on a hill” and a “beacon of light for all those who wish to come.”

The thousands of once-proud Republicans who have fled the party under President Trump and those who currently carry the mantle of Trumpism cannot coexist.

Republicans must make a difficult decision. Will your party be represented by white supremacists, white nationalists, QAnon conspirators, evangelicals who have turned a blind eye to all of Trump’s moral failings, or will the onceproud party of Reagan send Trumpism the way of the Whig Party?

America thrives when we have two political parties that articulate their philosophical differences. One party rule only adds to the truism “absolute power corrupts absolutely.”

The nation anxiously awaits.

Mark Kafouros, Peoria