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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
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Story: Little Neck’s Il Bacco restaurant owner votes
in person after leaving hospital following tragic
plane crash
Summary: Joe Oppedisano, the owner of Il Bacco
Ristorante restaurant in Little Neck, made sure he
left the hospital where he was being treated for
injuries he sustained in a tragic plane crash in order
to cast his vote in person on Tuesday, Nov. 3.
Reach: 5,833 (as of 11/9/20)
that occurred across New York and
America as merely that of victory of one
party over another. Th at is patently wrong.
Th is 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
President-elect Biden to bring this country
together, and that’s something which
he seems to wholeheartedly embrace.
“Th is 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. Th ey must abandon fascism,
embrace democracy once more and help
fi x 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 fi rmness in the right as God
grants us to see the right, let us strive on
to fi nish 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.”
REUTERS/Jim Bourg
With the 2020 presidential election called as of Nov. 7, it is now time to heal together as a nation.
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