Who would have imagined that the Peach State would be our country’s salvation from the “heart of darkness” we entered with President Trump and his administration? 

Georgia’s election of Raphael Warnock and Jon Ossoff to the United States Senate guarantees that President-elect Biden’s agenda will not be undermined/stymied/blocked by Mitch McConnell. Finally, the majority has found its voice.

You may recall that the majority of Americans did not want Trump to be their president, did not want a wall to be built on our southern border, did not want the country to withdraw from the Paris Climate Accords or the Iran Nuclear Agreement, did not want a Supreme Court vacancy filled in the 11th hour before an election, did not believe that COVID-19 would be gone after the election, did not fall victim to the thousands of lies spewed over the course of the past four years by a self-obsessed bully.

But Trump Republicans didn’t care what the majority of Americans wanted. They were desperate to maintain their hold on power any way they could, even if it meant subverting democracy and the expressed will of the public. 

Trump’s threatening phone call to the Georgia secretary of state on Jan. 2, demanding that he find votes to overturn the presidential election in that state, was the zenith of his corruption. The storming of the Capitol on Jan. 6 by a rioting mob of his followers was his defining shame and ignominy.

That so many Americans have been gullible to this unconscionable impostor is a sad statement on current America. But now, perhaps the more than 400 bills passed by the House of Representatives but blocked by McConnell can be considered, and the country can move forward solving its problems — and somehow somewhere find its moral bearings once again.

I’m honored to know that my mother’s home state provided the turning point.

John Delaney
PORT TOWNSEND