Picking Up the Pieces

NONE TOO SOON to be President Joe Biden's primary task will be to reverse every Trump policy, especially in the areas of racial relations, climate change, the economy, and the pandemic. Trump fueled racial strife with his personal racism, Biden must heal Trump's wounds. Trump ignored, mocked, and facilitated climate change, Biden will aggressively fight it. Trump ignored, mocked, and facilitated the pandemic, Biden must and will establish a potent federal policy of combating and controlling it. The economy will  rebound as a result of the retreating virus. The rumor is that Biden will invite Trump to continue living in the basement of the White House, where he can play with an inactive twitter account, and hurl accusations that the world is unfair, life is unfair, the election was stolen, and he is still president. Where I live the first eight days of November the daytime temperatures were all above seventy five degrees. Half of the days of October were eighty five degrees and more. This is becoming normal, this is our new climate. In my nineteen sixties childhood such temperatures this time of year were unheard of. A huge iceberg eight times the size of Manhattan has broken off from Antarctica and is now floating in the south Atlantic.Just like the economy cannot recover until the pandemic is brought under control, the human species cannot prosper in a better future world until climate change is brought under control, and reversed. The Trump administration, and all who supported him, pursued the most harmful possible policies with regard to all the major issues and problems confronting the Untied States and the world. Just as every trump presidential policy and every Republican policy is diametrically opposed to national and global heath and well being, Just as every Trump and republican policy is harmful to the nation and the world, Trump's behavior, and the behavior of his supporters during the first week after the election is exactly the opposite of what the nation needs to unify and heal. Trump's defenders always find ways to justify Trump's traitorous, unpatriotic behavior. Granted, the president has every right to delay the inevitable and to hinder the  administration transition by filing endless frivolous and hopeless lawsuits. But this is beside the point. the point is, in order to contribute to the national good, Trump and his supporters should accept defeat graciously, concede, and do everything in their power to make Joe Biden's ascent to the presidency as seamless and efficient as possible. That would be the proper, patriotic thing to do. But of course, proper patriotic behavior is and always has been beyond the comprehension of Trump and his supporters.