To the Editor:

Re “Trump Admits He Spoke to Ukraine About Biden” (front page, Sept. 23):

The Democrats have reached the proverbial fork in the road. If they choose the path of impeachment of the president, even if they fail in the Senate, they can hold their heads high, as the defenders of the Constitution and a party of values. If they choose to continue to go down the no-impeachment path, they will be known as enablers, who just like their Republican colleagues turned the other way to give free rein to President Trump’s actions.

Speaker Nancy Pelosi has so far shied away from impeachment, a political strategy aimed at not hurting her party’s chances in the 2020 elections. But there comes a time when political strategy must be superseded by principles. The Democrats must ask themselves: “If not us, who? If not now, when?” The time is now.

Subir Mukerjee

Olympia, Wash.

To the Editor:

People to President Trump: You’re fired! In the latest episode of a TV character who plays a president in real life, the heat gets turned up on him. He plays the role of a cocksure “gets away with anything” guy and kicks all boundaries while fighting the competition. Oh, it’s exciting! Ratings are high! He basks in the attention. Serious talk of impeachment. Will they get him now?

He will not go down easily, that’s a promise. He’ll fight them all the way, disregarding and subverting all the rules, and staying loyal to his audience by becoming more and more outrageous. In fact, every day a new outrage. Ha ha, let’s gut the Endangered Species Act. War with Iran, sure, if that’s what it takes to win.