Cooperation encouraged

A major advantage of our American way of life is a general willingness to seek a reconciliation of differences in shaping public policy. I am convinced that is where the straight and narrow way of meaningful progress is found.

This is our challenge in Utah with the emergence of a stern Republican turn to the right. Buttressing this shift is a peculiar self-serving brand of constitutional legalism: an ideology that is self-righteously wielded to promote a mean-spirited xenophobia given to scapegoating.

It is not just the right. Sound judgment, ability, integrity and cooperation are expected of all.

Andrew McDonald

Mapleton