There’s a sickness in our country, a sickness of hate.

Toward Jewish people, Muslim people, LGBT people, brown and black people – you name it. And in this time when we need moral clarity to guide us back toward our shared values of unity and diversity, our leader – Donald Trump – is morally bankrupt.

He dog-whistles to white supremacists, winks and nods to anti-American hate, and turns his back on any opportunity to heal the wounds of a country he helped divide.

Sometimes his mission to divide is overt, like telling four American congresswomen of color to “go back” to where they came from.

Sometimes it’s through policy, like caging Latinx children on the border and banning people from Muslim-majority countries to enter the United States.

But each and every instance makes it that much clearer: He’s a threat to American ideals, and the United States cannot take another four years of his division.

When I met with Joe Biden in May at The Works Café in Concord, he told me he entered the race because of how Trump handled the Charlottesville riots – when, after a neo-Nazi murdered a protester, Trump claimed there were “very fine people on both sides.”

That’s why I’m endorsing Biden, because he knows this election is about so much more than policy differences; it’s about healing a broken country.

And because after four years of division and hate, I know, of all the candidates, Joe Biden is best be able to unite a nation that desperately needs to be united.

JON BRESLER

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