We now have a real mensch for a president. He cares about people as his policies show. In the short time he's been in office, he's definitively reversed many of the destructive political moves that Trump made--moves that were harmful to the average citizen, as well as to the planet and its environment in general.
Joe Biden is a Democrat, in the sense that his main task is to care for the welfare of the average man and woman and child. Trump was in it for himself mostly, a rather disgusting display of narcissism, authoritarianism, and even fascism. Thank God and the angels he is gone.
But we are still left with a Republican Party, state and federal, that has built a Golden Calf of Trump and worships and fears him as if he were a god. Trump is not a god--far from it. In fact, he and his cronies and surrogates like Roger Stone, Michael Flynn, Rudy Gulianni, Ted Cruz, Josh Hawley, Ron Johnson, and others are physical manifestations of the devil, and all that that figurative religious icon represents. They all tried to block a rightful election and attempt to illegally overturn the results, shamelessly trying to dismantle democracy and its basic institution of one person/one vote. And they persist with aggressive actions to impede Black and Brown folks from access to voting. And an ultraconservative Supreme Court, three of whom were appointed by an incompetent Trump, is hellbent to support Republicans in their toxic shift towards fascist efforts to undermine the vote.
And Trump still threatens, even without his Twitter account, as he rants and snorts and spits his invective. But Joe Biden and his good people are now in charge, and, like Moses descending from Mt. Sinai with the Ten Commandments, will smash that Golden Idol, and shake the shoulders of intractable Americans until they understand that democracy will prevail.
A bit over one year ago, the first American died from Covid 19. Trump minimized it and claimed it was little more than the common flu. Today, over a half million are dead from this coronvirus because Trump did not take definitive and science back actions that could have subdued this pandemic and saved many of those precious lives. In my estimation, he is a criminal who should be tried and convicted of crimes against this nation. He should be imprisoned, never able to hurt our people again.
President Biden is the right person at the right time for setting this country back on course, on many levels, as a model for the rest of the world struggling with serious problems. Biden is a good man, as was always pointed out during his campaign, and that is exactly what we now need. He is a smart man, the opposite of how Trump and the extreme right wing media portrayed him. He is a kind and compassionate man, eager to console where consolation is needed, eager to reassure where trust has been broken, and eager to right the wrongs of not only the past four years but of many, many years before.
The present Republicans in Congress are obstructionists. They are not interested in unity or cooperation with the majority. They are trying to do to Biden what they did to Obama, led by a McCarthy and a McConnell who are only concerned with one thing: to regain their majorities in both Houses. They are not concerned with conquering the pandemic. They are not concerned with getting Americans back to work and school. They are not concerned with Neo-Nazi fascist white supremacists who invaded Congress on 1/6 and who roam the countryside and cities spreading their hatred and vitriol. They are not concerned with insane conspiracy theories like QAnon. In fact, they have embraced these psychotic mutations designed to divide and conquer. Republicans are not concerned with unity and bipartisanship.
So Mr. Biden, here's what I suggest. Put an end to the filibuster. Don't bother consulting with Republicans who are merely Trump cult worshipers. Continue to issue Executive Orders that return this country to sanity. And push for legislation that will protect our democracy, expanding the right and ability to vote; increase the minimum wage to a livable sum; foster equality and justice for all so that minorities of all kinds can feel welcome here and protected against bigotry and discrimination and violence; protect the environment--air, water, plants, animals-- of our fragile planet that we have so abused; insist on humane and democratic rights for peoples throughout the world; make sure everyone has proper health insurance and care as most other advanced countries do; and make treaties that lead to peace and trade and prosperity and protection from hostile forces between and among nations.
Lincoln and FDR, with wisdom, courage, and guts, saw us through some incredibly challenging times. Now it's your time to shine, President Joe Biden. Leave behind the Republicans who are self-destructing and trying to obstruct you. Move us forward. Help us through these national emergencies. Just do it!