Biden called upon to heal broken nation

DEAR EDITOR:

On Nov. 7, Joe Biden was declared the President-elect of the United States after winning the battleground state of Pennsylvania. His margin of victory increased a few days later following victories in Arizona and Georgia.

It should have been a time of rejoicing after four years of madness and chaos in the White House.

For the good of the United States, for the good of the world, yay for the good of the Milky

Way galaxy, Donald Trump was going to be a one-term president.

But in the following days and weeks, it became evident Trump would not go quietly in the night like former one-term presidents Jimmy Carter and George

Herbert Walker Bush. His legal team of Rudy Giuliani, Sidney Powell and Jenna Ellis launched dozens of lawsuits (most based on discredited conspiracy theories) seeking to subvert the democratic will of the people in Michigan, Pennsylvania, Arizona and Georgia.

Election officials in these states were under a constant state of threats and harassment to overturn the outcome.

It all came to an ugly conclusion on Jan. 6 as a violent mob of Trump supporters stormed Capitol Hill in protest to replace the election certification that was “stolen” from Trump. A second impeachment of Trump for incitement of insurrection occurred in his final days in office.

I have believed for many years the Republicans were a party of the 3Gs — greed, guns and God in no particular order. But the years of Trumpism have changed that image. The GOP has become a haven for racist white nationalists, climate change deniers and QAnon conspiracy theorists.

Donald Trump is a deeply flawed, and morally deficient man who was demonstrably unfit to serve in the Oval Office. It will be up to Joseph Biden Jr. to heal the wounds of this broken nation, which no longer resembles a functioning democracy.

Bruce Gajerski, Kelowna