Editor,

When our historically democratic republic was founded with the separation and balances of constitutional power, American Patriots had just successfully rebelled against an autocratic English king. Now, 235 years later, we are facing an election in four months between a good, honest but aging constitutionalist man and another aging man who wants to be a king.

The recent U.S. Supreme Court decision on presidential immunity has in effect just ruled that a president has mystical immunities and can legally be a king or an autocratic dictator who is above the law. One of the candidates states publicly that he is still the legitimate president, having purportedly but falsely won the 2020 election, and that he intends to rule as a king, a dictator, or an autocrat if he is elected again in 2024. He is a legally convicted criminal felon for his election interference in 2016, and he has violated his oath to defend the Constitution by his attempt to overthrow the 2020 election in 2021. Now he wants to be elected with the openly avowed intention of destroying the Constitution and assuming autocratic dictatorial powers.

George Washington voluntarily gave up the presidency in 1796 after two terms and declared that he did not want to be a king. What would Washington say today about our current choice between a prospective king who has already openly acted contrary to our laws and Constitution and our current constitutionalist president?

As a former Republican senior professional staff member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, appointed by a truly conservative senator, I collaborated with President Biden for six years when he was a senator. He is a good and decent man. There are many strong Democrat leaders.

David S. Sullivan

Oak Harbor