BIDEN WINS, DECENCY WINS

Saturday, 10:35 a.m. The news networks have just declared Joe Biden the winner of the 2020 election for president. This is an historic moment in so many ways. 

Someone asked me this morning how the history books would look on this election. I said instantly, this was the election in which the American people awoke and chose decency over indecency. In other words, we listened to the better angels of our nature.

I think we the people made two big decisions last Tuesday. In one, we defended our democratic republic from a man who tried to be an unconstitutional autocrat. In the other, we rejected Trump's politics of personal destruction, a mixture of craziness, meanness and cruelty. We judged this to be unacceptably indecent. Both of these are great accomplishments and causes for great rejoicing.

Now comes the moment crying out for healing and reconciliation. The nation is badly and dangerously divided. Biden and all people of good will are now challenged to bring us together.

The Great Democratic Revolution has been vindicated and strengthened. The counter-revolution has suffered a serious defeat. It is still there but now with much less power to resist the tidal wave of history moving toward a more perfect union. This is a milestone marker for human rights.