The Difference Between Unity and Accountability

Parsing Joe Biden’s message to heal our national divide.

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Elections have consequences.

Or do they?

We know they have winners and losers, but in this post-election, pre-inaugural era, the question of consequences weighs heavily in the public discourse, or it at least lights up my Twitter feed.

This morning Jake Tapper of CNN posted a tweet that brought to our attention an organization called The Trump Accountability Project. He claimed the organization aimed to prevent anyone in the administration from getting a job once the Biden team took over.

Quoting from Tapper, “Click on the link — the manifesto says this applies to “those who took a paycheck from the Trump Administration.” That’s a pretty long list of Americans.”

Now, if I have any followers left after my hiatus from daily postings, you know I love a snarky response as much as the next smartass. So I promptly retweeted something along the lines of, “240k lives. That’s a pretty long list of Americans, Jake.”

See, I have some feels about the consequences of an election. And letting Trump enablers off with a letter of recommendation and two weeks severance pay rubs me the wrong way. But then I got to thinking. Not everyone in the government was a Trump…