No compromises

Now that the country has finally been delivered from the disaster of Trump, the new Biden administration should declare that there will be no compromises: there will be no compromises giving Trump a pardon in exchange to his ending his frivolous lawsuits; there will be no compromise over the theft of two Supreme Court seats and McConnell will face the political payback from these stolen seats; and there will be no compromise with the rehabilitation of Bill Barr, Jared Kushner or Stephen Miller. Finally, there will be no compromise or rehabilitation of QAnon.

These people are evil and evil must be treated as such. There should be no plan for finding common ground with people who chose to separate babies from their parents: none. Vice President Kamala Harris should be put in charge of a national reconciliation/ truth commission that should examine the excesses of the Trump years and bring charges where appropriate. Colin Powell should be a member of such a commission. A political reckoning is absolutely necessary. Silence cannot follow four years of abuse: the Muslim ban, the Ukraine call, telling the Proud Boys to stand at the ready. These were evil and immoral acts and they must be revisited or someone like Trump will repeat them in the future. Doing nothing will be tantamount to agreeing to Trump’s abuses. War dead are not losers, and neither are immigrants rapists. These calumnies need to be addressed or there is no moving forward.

It is so fitting that it is the Associated Press which has declared Biden the winner. Now Trump will forever be known as a loser.