As we transition from one leadership to another, it’s so important and respectful that we give credit to a man who saved America, digging us out of a deep dark hole, and preventing us from sliding into a bottomless abyss.
In 2020, America had refrigerated morgue trucks containing stacks of dead bodies in parking lots, caused by Trump’s ineptitude in managing the pandemic; decimating the pandemic safety nets that Obama had put in place before Trump was elected. Instead, he set a network of fraud and deceit to benefit those who couldn’t even pass a security clearance for government service. Caregivers were wearing trash bags instead of sterile coverings, sick and contagious patients stashed in hallways; America’s healthcare system was overwhelmed.
Trump took a stellar Obama economy, which was springing back to life after the 2008 recession, and remade it into something subpar.
Trump did so many bad things from 2016-2020 that it’s impossible to list here, but Robert Reich listed 75 of Trump failings for you to read: https://robertreich.org/post/762010231403429888
His label as the “Worst President in American History” by historians is well-deserved.
The man who saved us was Joe Biden.
America should be eternally grateful to him, not just for his accomplishments (which are many) but for his self-sacrifice. He could have gone on the attack. He did not. He did not wish to add fuel to the smoldering ashes of the Trump presidency and set our country on fire a second time. He deserved a comfortable retirement for his years of service in Congress and as Vice-President, but he saw what was happening and he acted out of obligation with no regard for his own comfort.
Most of all, he was America’s comforter-in-chief. When he spoke and told us that we could indeed “do it”, he did so from the heart, sincere in his affection for his fellow Americans. He allayed our fears.
Of course, he made mistakes. There’s no president in history who has not. Even FDR erred in sending Japanese-Americans to internment camps.
What’s ironic is that other countries recognize the efforts of Joe Biden, but America—not so much. He was recently honored with Germany’s highest honor, the Grand Cross of the Order of Merit in a ceremony in Berlin on his farewell trip to Europe.
Instead of gratitude, many Americans felt entitled and were ready to figuratively cudgel Biden to death until he made the decision not to run in 2024—again, that move came from sacrifice. People I long respected in government and the media went on the offensive and those individuals are dead to me now and their once-respected image will not be resurrected in my mind in the future.
And as we hopefully elect another Democrat, Vice-President Kamala Harris, I say to Joseph Robinette Biden—we love you, Joe, and we are grateful to you.
We’ll never forget you and the accomplishments you made in service to America.
