Here’s a screenshot from the top of the home page of Forward Kentucky:
Yes, this is the last Monday of the worst presidency in the history of our country. And yes, we’ve been counting it down for over a month.
Noon on Wednesday cannot come soon enough. Getting Biden/Harris in, and Trump/Pence out, is going to be a “whew, we made it” moment. But, as Churchill once said, this is only the end of the beginning. We still have much, much work left.
I could try to make a list of all the things on our national to-do list, but it would overwhelm this note and your inbox. Here’s just a few headings: COVID, economy, Justice Department, NATO, Russia.
But … we also have to include working on justice for all, anti-racism, pro-democracy, civic culture, and a whole host of national values we have too long ignored. And we have to try to rebuild a shared world of reality and truth, where we all operate from the same facts, even if we don’t agree on the meaning of those facts.
The Trump presidency has revealed not just the shaky foundation of our democracy, but also the rot and termites throughout. It’s time we admit we have these problems, and figure out how to solve them.
Two days. And then, years.
Let us get to it.
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