Throughout our nation's history, midterm elections have normally been a referendum on the president. But these are not normal times. In these pivotal midterms on Nov. 3, voters face a much larger choice between two completely different visions for America.

One seeks to preserve and strengthen the foundations that made our nation great, while the other seeks to tear them down. One wants to build, the other to destroy.

Our framers understood that a truly free and prosperous people must embrace and maintain essential first principles: individual liberty, limited government, the rule of law and the inherent dignity of every person. We have not always lived up to those principles, but our constant pursuit of them made America the freest, strongest and most prosperous nation in human history – and it is why we remain so.

Democrats have bent the knee to the far left

Tragically, today's Democratic Party no longer seeks to preserve our foundations but to dismantle them. Since a far-left socialist insurgency overwhelmed the party's centrist wing, even the old-guard Democrats in Congress have been forced to bend the knee to the socialists.

The shift didn't take place overnight. "Woke" Democrats promised that defunding the police would make communities safer. Under President Joe Biden, they took long strides further left, arguing that opening the border would somehow enrich American communities. They insisted that boys could be girls and girls could be boys, and that the only remedy for........

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