In the last year, we have borne the deaths of more than 362,000 Americans as the COVID-19 pandemic was downplayed by the Trump administration; we have watched the president willfully ignore science — both in his handling of the pandemic and in other policy areas; we have watched the quest for justice for Black Americans be impeded and ignored; worse, we have endured rhetoric meant to spur violence against Black Americans.
In the weeks since Biden soundly beat Trump — again, at the ballot box and in the Electoral College, both without any credible evidence of fraud — we have watched Republicans in the president's administration, in Congress and in other positions of power across the land stoke Trump's false narrative that the election was "rigged" and that the votes against him were frauds.