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President Joe Biden has proven once again that he is both a great leader of our nation and an example of a very good man.

Donald Trump is neither, and a majority of Americans will make that clear to him in November.

But, as important, indeed, as critical, as that is, the election of Kamala Harris offers our nation something even more profound and historically significant.

We now have the opportunity as a people to show the world that America is politically united behind racial and gender justice as we choose a leader to move us forward in the 21^st century.

It has taken us a long time to get here, and we still have a ways to go, but the election in November will signal a major step forward for we, the people, living up to the ideals and values on which this nation was built.

The election of Kamala Harris will not be easy because racial and gender prejudice continues to show itself in all aspects of American life.

Still, what an unexpected moment in history this is for the country, a chance to demonstrate a surprising degree of unity that celebrates the amazing diversity that makes us the nation we are.

President Kamala Harris will truly represent the very best of who we now are as Americans, people wanting to do better because we are becoming a better people, people weary of old divisions and old discrimination and old social class ugliness.

She will speak and act as a symbol of a new America, still flawed, but having taken a decisive step to a new and different future where people, as Dr. King said, are judged not by the color of their skin (or the national origin or their sexual orientation), but by the content of their character.

After working through my disappointment and even some anger over Joe Biden’s withdrawal from the presidential race, I realized that once again he has saved us from the disaster and chaos another term of Trump as president would have been.

He did it first in 2020. By defeating Trump he literally saved the nation from a level of incompetence, corruption, and abuse of power some people suspected, but no one could have known when we voted.

Then January 6 happened and we saw just how power driven Trump actually was. Biden saved us from that, from a Trumpian autocracy that would have changed America forever.

And now he has done it again with his magnanimous decision yesterday. I still believe President Biden would have won re-election, and contrary to news media propaganda, all reliable polls were saying he had an even chance of doing so, but his decision to withdraw is having a unifying effect I certainly didn’t see coming.

Democrats and independents and anti-Trump Republicans are coalescing around Kamala Harris like nothing we’ve seen in American politics in recent years. It’s as if Biden’s exemplary patriotism opened a flood gate of determination to have done with all things Trumpian.

Kamala Harris is going to win the presidency. The race will get nasty as Republicans become more desperate to avoid the inevitable. And, of course, the news media will create negative stories about her using comments by her detractors as a way to make-up news just as they did with Biden.

It’s tragic, really, what has happened to the media, becoming as it has the enemy of the people, not in the way Trump thought, but in driving the news while pretending to report it, a terribly deceptive and destructive practice that is hurting the country.

But Kamala Harris is going to win anyway, and when she does, America will win, too, the best of America, the best about us as a people.

I’m not suggesting it’s morning in America again, but I am saying that it isn’t midnight either, and in November we will witness the dawn of better days we’ve all wondered would ever be possible again.