EDITORIAL
WITH MALICE
TOWARD NONE
When the major news outlets called the presidential
election on Saturday for Joe Biden, we
found ourselves a little taken aback by the outpouring
of emotion that followed.
Cynics might think of the celebrations that occurred
across New York and America as merely that of victory
of one party over another. That is patently wrong.
This was a celebration of democracy — and the rejection
of fascism — in America.
Still, President Trump and his most loyal subjects in
government continue to deny the reality. He still refuses
to concede the election; his Congressional servants
won’t acknowledge the outcome; and his “legal team”
cannot produce a single shred of valid evidence to prove
any of the fraud allegations they have brought forth.
Joe Biden won the election, Donald Trump lost it.
Biden got more votes than Trump — all of them legal.
And it’s time for Trump and company to accept that so
this country can heal.
Pundits have spoken of the necessity for Presidentelect
Biden to bring this country together, and that’s
something which he seems to wholeheartedly embrace.
“This is the time to heal,” Biden told the nation in
his victory speech. We have no reason to doubt his sincerity,
given his extraordinary record as a public servant.
Democrats of all stripes should, and we believe will,
follow Biden’s example — recognizing the fact that 70
million Americans had supported Trump, and that
they need to be won over not just by what’s said in the
next four years, but by what’s done.
But to heal our country and solve our problems,
Republicans and Trump loyalists must put down their
weapons of political warfare. Compromise was never
weakness, and government was never the problem.
They must abandon fascism, embrace democracy once
more and help fix this great nation.
It’s time to heal. It’s time to govern together.
We must follow the guiding principles of Abraham
Lincoln in the closing line of his second inaugural address:
“With malice toward none, with charity for all, with
firmness in the right as God grants us to see the right,
let us strive on to finish the work we are in — to bind
up our nation’s wounds; to care for him who shall have
borne the battle, and for his widow and his orphan; to
do all which may achieve and cherish a just and a lasting
peace among ourselves, and with all nations.”
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With the 2020 presidential election called as of Nov. 7, it is now time to heal together as a nation.
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