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By JOHN KANELIS<\/strong><\/p>\n

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I have reached a conclusion that others reached a long time ago, but it’s a big deal to me, so I am going to explain what it is and why it’s such a big deal.<\/p>\n

The conclusion is that we are going to conduct the most important presidential election in at least the past century. Donald Trump v. Joe Biden<\/em> is as big a deal as any I have seen since I’ve been voting and I suspect some even older folks would agree.<\/p>\n

What’s at stake? I believe the size and gravity of the stakes make this election so incredibly critical. The stakes, simply put are the survival of our system of government.<\/p>\n

In 2016, Donald Trump parlayed a desire for radical change in the way we govern into a fluky Electoral College victory. Roughly 77,000 voters in three Rust Belt states gave Trump the Electoral College margin he needed to win.<\/p>\n

He said he would be “unconventional” and that he “alone” would solve our problems. He delivered on the first thing. As for the solution, he “alone” has made them worse.<\/p>\n

Trump has lied and lied again and again. About everything. He has put unqualified individuals in key advisory roles; e.g., Ivanka Trump and her husband Jared Kushner. He has burned through national security advisers and White House chiefs of staff. Trump has made a mess of everything he has touched.<\/p>\n

He has fomented conspiracy theories. He has called Nazis and Klansmen “fine people.” He has appealed only to his base of fervent supporters.<\/p>\n

The experiment in unconventionality has failed.<\/p>\n

Joe Biden represents a return to normal governance, to what the late John McCain would call “regular order.” Biden is campaigning to restore our national soul. It needs restoration. Our soul has been damaged, but not destroyed, by Donald Trump and his hideous conduct.<\/p>\n

I am a good government<\/em> kind of guy. I much prefer my presidents to be better than I am. I want them to set moral examples. Biden represents a return to an era of good government. He spent 36 years in the U.S. Senate and eight years as vice president.<\/p>\n

Joe Biden knows how to govern. He is an ardent student of the government in which he has been a significant participant. Yes, I believe Joe Biden can restore our national soul and more importantly, revive our standing as the world’s most indispensable nation.<\/p>\n

Thus, we are going to conduct the most significant election in anyone’s memory. It is, as Biden himself once said, a “big fu**ing deal.”\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n\n

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