Acknowledge the loss

Trump supporters, please listen to reason: The Department of Homeland Security says the 2020 presidential election was “the most secure in American history.” Election officials in all 50 states say there is no evidence of significant election fraud. And 1,000 attorneys, retired federal and state judges, state attorneys general and law professors recently spoke out against the spate of baseless lawsuits from the Trump campaign alleging widespread election fraud.

You can hatch as many harebrained conspiracies as you want and bandy them about among yourselves. But in the end it doesn’t change the fact that you’ve got nothing. Furthermore, through your actions you are undermining the very sacrifices our veterans have made throughout the years to protect our democracy. The very same sacrifices many of you honored recently on Veterans Day.

Many of you talk big about taking up arms and defending our country against invaders, foreign and domestic. But the real threat to our country right now is your own ignorance. And Trump is now wielding it against the very democratic process that rightly rejected him. And Republican enablers like Gov. Asa Hutchinson continue to court it in order to maintain their positions.

For God’s sake! Do the right thing and put the good of your country before the good of your own party, and stop trying to impede a process which has been the cornerstone of our democratic republic for well over 200 years.

Acknowledge that Donald Trump lost, fair and square, and Joe Biden is our president-elect.

STEVE LEWIS Little Rock