To the Editor:

In reference to a recent letter to the editor here in The Altamont Enterprise by Tim Albright [“Consider fascism as you vote in local elections,” Oct. 9, 2025], I’d like to expound upon his thoughts regarding our federal government’s moves towards fascism.

Many of us were concerned about President Donald Trump’s authoritarian tendencies during his first term, but during the four years between his two terms in office, he and the Republican apparatus were quite busy preparing Project 2025 — a nearly 1,000-page long playbook for how Trump’s second term would be executed. (Of course, Trump told us he knew nothing about it during the campaign and now he touts its main author — Russell Vought — for his work to dismantle our government as outlined in Project 2025).

And now, they are going page by page through their playbook; and with it, transforming our government and with it, our democracy.

You can read Tim’s letter if you’d like to learn how this is happening, but I would like to echo Tim’s thoughts on voting this November.

While I do believe that Republicans do often offer good ideas, now is the time to reject the party that is enabling Trump’s growing tyranny. From the very beginning of the rise of Trump, it has been my belief that, if we are to effectively denounce his many unconstitutional policies and edicts, it will be Republicans of good conscience who will be needed to speak up to defend what is right.

But I have been gravely disappointed by their commitment to remain silent on such matters for fear that they might lose their tiny grip on power — as though that is somehow more important than integrity and truth. (I mean, even now, so many still hold fast to the lie that Trump got shafted in the 2020 election, when in fact, he lost by the same electoral margin in which he beat Hillary Clinton four years earlier and called it a “landslide” at the time, despite losing the popular vote to her.)

But if you’re not going to do what’s right and say what’s right — even on the local level — then who are you really serving?

Are you running for office to serve your master, or are you running for office to serve the people?

Any public servant not willing to speak up on behalf of democracy and against the tyranny that seeks to destroy our democratic norms, well, that person is not fit to serve in public office — plain and simple.

Aaron Corman

New Scotland