Pastor John Pavlovitz echoes The Gadfly's horrified sentiments about Drumpf's disturbing behavior in the wake of the Minnesota political assassinations.
Link: https://johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/i-miss-having-a-human-president
"Watching President Biden at the memorial service for Minnesota House Speaker Melissa Hortman and her husband, Mark, who were murdered in their homes by a Conservative Christian zealot, my heart broke open again at the sight of a leader of empathy performing the greatest act of leadership: being human.
I realized that amid the unthinkable criminality, staggering overreach, and human rights rollbacks we’re living through, perhaps the most tragic loss this nation has experienced, is that we have lost the reality of a president who, as Joe Biden has always done in challenging and painful moments: calls us to the best of who we are as a people, appeals to our better angels, and invites us to be agents of goodness.
It will be a long time until America can again look to its President for a compassionate response to other people’s pain; to see someone willing and capable of caring, weeping, and feeling.
We will have to wait years to have a leader whose burden is to the totality of our people; someone whose motivations are not profit and power, someone who does not take every opportunity, no matter how painful or sacred, to divide or wound.
Six months after leaving office, Joe Biden is doing the work our sitting President should be doing but cannot and will not do."
There's nothing left to add to that.
---TFG
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