2020 Presidential Election and Its Aftermath: One of America’s Worst — and Finest — Hours

Trump Impeached a Second Time

[Note to Readers: The views expressed here are solely those of Ross Kaplan, and do not represent Edina Realty, Berkshire Hathaway, or any other entity referenced. Edina Realty is a subsidiary of Berkshire.]

Of all the desecrations committed by President Donald J. Trump or his followers the last 4+ years, the most heinous isn’t the January 6 attack on the Capitol.

However indelible those still-raw images may be, I believe history will judge Trump’s worst sin to be his unconscionable defaming of the 2020 Presidential election — the Big Lie that inspired January 6.

New York Times columnist (and fellow St. Louis Park native son and Echo staffer) Thomas Friedman sets the record straight:

Trump took the most heroic election in American history — an election in which more Americans voted than ever before, freely and fairly in the midst of a deadly pandemic — and claimed it was all a fraud, because he didn’t win. And then, on the basis of that Big Lie, eight Republican senators and 139 House members voted to nullify Joe Biden’s electoral victory. That is sick.”

–“Trump Is Blowing Apart the G.O.P. God Bless Him”, Thomas L. Friedman; The New York Times (Jan. 12, 2021).

Voters this year faced a virus, not bullets; any election-related deaths (from Covid-19) pale by comparison with Antietam, D-Day or other military battles.

Nevertheless, over 150 million Americans heroically braved the worst pandemic in a century to exercise their franchise, in many cases enduring physical harassment or hours-long delays to do so.

Tom Friedman is exactly right: that’s what heroism and patriotism looks like . . .

P.S.: According to Thomas Krebs, director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, the 2020 Presidential election was “the most secure in American history.”

Donald Trump fired him on November 17, 2020.



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