‘Clarion call to save democracy’

Re “Biden calls ‘MAGA Republicans’ a threat,” Sept. 2

President Biden’s address to the nation Thursday night was a clarion call to save democracy. How can democracy survive in this country if its bedrock foundation, free and fair elections, continues to be undermined and attacked by millions of people claiming to be patriots?

Looking to the November midterms, I have two overarching questions: First, will the Republicans who lose claim their defeats are the result of rigged elections? And second, will they clog the courts with the same unfounded examples of fraud that judges, appointed by both Republican and Democratic presidents, rejected in 2020?

Election deniers inspired by the former president are running for high-profile, statewide offices across the country. My guess is that many more are seeking city council, school board or water board seats as well. To each of them I ask: Which is more important, your winning based on discredited, unproven “truths” about rigged results, or democracy based on free, fair and legitimate elections enduring?

I support the president’s call to action.

Alex Wong Getty Images IN HIS speech Thursday, President Biden said, “History tells us that blind loyalty to a single leader” and political violence are fatal to a democracy.