In 2016, with four states still uncalled, and with no where near “all” the votes counted in any state, Donald Trump accepted the results, when it was clear, by whatever algorithms the AP uses, that they could call the election.
Hillary Clinton, as has been our expectation, standard and norm for almost two hundred and fifty years, called the president – elect to congratulate him, and the next day publicly conceded very graciously. President Obama invited the surprise winner to the White House, and offered to assist the transition in any way possible.
It is our most sacred America tradition to have elections, and when the election is over, to proceed with a peaceful and orderly transition to the new government.
It amazes me that any of you, whom I know to harbor love of this country, are not willing to champion the most fundamental principle. This principle, without which, we are hardly America at all.
It would be one of history’s greatest tragedies for the USA to be allowed by those who can stop it to degenerate into this authoritarian nightmare, a proto-fascist ‘Former’ USA.
You who say you are patriots: NOW is the time to show you place your country above your hurt feelings.
I may have been bitterly disappointed, and candidly ashamed, that DJT had been elected president. But I did not deny it. I did not take down the flag that flies in front of my house. And although I know some did, I did not march in the street chanting “not my president”, nor question his right to be there.
More importantly, the administration and party that was in power at that time did not actively oppose or refuse the results.
Before that election, I received a Facebook meme which I knew was a lie. It was that President Obama had said he may not accept the results. I knew it was a lie because I knew the President would never do that.
This president is apparently different.
Americans. Patriots. The votes have all been counted now. The sources which have called elections for two hundred and fifty years, and who called the 2016 election, have now spoken. The allegations of impropriety have been tried in court. The election officials- even the Republicans in Georgia have certified it as untainted.
It is time to remember NOW, that we are America.
If we do not, not only will we never be great again.
We will never be America again.