Excerpt from Quora...


Imagine for moment if you are a US diplomat. Tomorrow you will go to work representing the US in 190 countries and hundreds more consulates around the world. What do you think will be on the minds of those who come to the embassy as you tell them to respect democracy, that they must have a peaceful transfer of power, that they must have free and fair elections.

And the entire world has been watching, listening waiting to see if and when the US congress and senate would recognize the obvious, Donald J Trump was guilty as charged. Proven beyond any doubt with his own words over the past year, or since 2016 when he said he might not accept the results of that election and only would if he won. And clearly in 2020 he made good on that pledge when he absolutely refused to accept his decisive defeat by Joe Biden.

Donald Trump didn’t just thumb his nose at Congress, the Democrats, the entire US electoral system. He didn’t just mock 81,283,000+who voted their constitutional right for Joe Biden who decisively beat Trump which every court, almost every Senator and only the traitors in the House refused to acknowledge who now have blood on their hands along with the 43 Republican Senators who hid behind a lie. That the constitution did not allow for a President who was impeached while in office, then was delayed by the Republicans until he was out of office so they could then say, out of office not constitutional as their fig leaf, their lie to not have to convict him.

The rest of the world is appalled, disgusted but now know for sure that the US cannot be trusted. Not because it doesn’t have fantastic people, but because it elected a rogue president who tried to have a coup and failed and then the Republicans decided it was ok. Ok to throw out the values, the deaths of millions who sacrificed their blood, the families who gave up their men and women to fight for the USA whom Trump mocked, the service of 10s of millions. And why did these weaklings vote to acquit, because they either were afraid of Trump, or god forbid, they believe that it is ok to overthrow their own government including trying to murder the Vice President and their colleagues.

It will take a long time to fix and repair this breach internally. But Americans should never forget what Trump and the Republicans have done to damage the US and to change the perception of the world of what and who America is and what it stands for.

There is no shining beacon on a hill tonight, there is only shame and disgust.