To my MAGA aunt: You should have watched the Jan. 6 hearings

I’m old enough to remember when we mocked “Sore-Loserman” when Al Gore refused to do the same (prior to the Supreme Court’s ruling) in 2000. Although, unlike Trump, Gore eventually did concede the election and gave a poignant speech where he called George W. Bush the “President-elect,” adding “I call on all Americans—I particularly urge all who stood with us—to unite behind our next president.”

If Gore was worthy of our derision for refusing to concede for a little over a month in a razor-thin election, what does Trump deserve for losing in an electoral (and popular) vote landslide, and never at all conceding that Biden won?

This is not a partisan thing. As you’ve probably noticed, most of the damning evidence cited in this letter comes from Trump, Trump’s family, Trump administration staffers, and Trump voters.

Of course, the other people on the list are law enforcement officers.

I know you believe Blue Lives Matter. Well, on Thursday, we learned that after Trump tweeted “Mike Pence didn’t have the courage to do what should have been done to protect our Country and our Constitution”—a line that Trump’s deputy press secretary said was “him pouring gasoline on the fire”—the vice president’s Secret Service agents were so fearful that some of them started phoning their loved ones to say “goodbye.”