Recently, President Biden spoke at Independence Hall, focused on our founding documents and their significance today, first, on the Declaration of Independence that announced: "all men are created equal," and second, on our Constitution that established that it was "We the People" who found this democratic nation.

Biden left behind the quiet of the Rose Garden to join the heated discussion - how "we the people" may preserve and protect "our democracy."

Given our times, this pronouncement was bold, significant, and historic.

Biden set the table, explaining how both "equality" and "democracy" are at risk and under assault. He made it crystal clear that we do ourselves no favor to pretend otherwise.

Biden said, "look at the mob that stormed the U.S. Capitol on January 6th – brutally attacking law enforcement."

Trump and the MAGA Republicans don't acknowledge that they are insurrectionists; Biden charged they "placed a dagger to the throat of our democracy, but they look at themselves as patriots."

Biden said, "Democracy can't survive when one side believes there are only two outcomes to an election – either they win or they were cheated."

Many MAGA cult members know very well there was no fraud, that they were not cheated; therefore, we know they are just plain lying.

Remember Trump's volatile counsel, Rudy Giuliani, whose advice on election night was - "just say we won."

Unsurprisingly, Giuliani's N.Y. law license has been suspended, and he may be disbarred from practicing law.

Almost daily, some new facts and related crimes are attributed to Trump. There's much hand-wringing – talk about how shameful the conduct is – but then little or nothing is done to hold Trump accountable.

In the first speech Trump gave after the G-men found the state secrets that Trump took from the White House, Trump attacked Biden.

Trump's over-arching trash talk – the springs and wheels of this ignoble public figure – were directed at Biden, charging that he, Biden, was "the enemy" of the State.

There is an artistic parallel and plenty of historical examples where the true hero is declared the enemy.

Henrik Ibsen wrote a play in 1882, "Enemy of the People," about how "the people" found Dr. Thomas Stockman, a medical officer, the enemy because he disclosed a threat of pollution in the spa's water supply.

They couldn't dispute what Stockman found. They went after Stockman instead for telling his "inconvenient truth."

Nor is Trump just about "trash talk."

Trump has coerced witnesses, congress, and courts and obstructed the various federal and State investigations of his ongoing misconduct.

Biden said, "…history tells us that loyalty to a single leader, and the willingness to engage in political violence is fatal to democracy."

We know how past autocrats or dictators were brought low, but not before they caused a lot of suffering.

Biden said, "Donald Trump and the MAGA republicans represent extremism that threatens the very foundation of our republic.

Biden said, "We can't be pro insurrectionist and pro-American. They are incompatible positions."

Biden could have gone further and said we couldn't accept a dictator, an autocrat when we are a democracy.

The contrasts are striking.

Biden believes in the rule of law; Trump ignores the law.

Biden believes in free and fair elections; Trump does not.

Biden honors the will of the people; Trump does not.

Trump called the FBI that found the contraband at Mar-a-Lago - "vicious monsters."

Our best weapon against Trump is the truth.

MAGA Republicans, Biden charged, "live not in the light of truth but in the shadow of lies."

Our efforts must be directed to drive Trump out of the shadows.

House Minority Leader McCarthy claimed that Biden "slandered tens of millions of Americans as fascists."

McCarthy ignores the fact that any slander stands that is true.

Biden said, "We, the people will not let anyone or anything tear us apart."

When we say we will not "let" this happen, we will do more than talk against such misconduct. We are going to act against it. Still, the fair question is, do we mean something more than talk?

We have plenty of infractions without action. That's not right.

Are we prepared to act, to arrest Trump?

Anything less exposes us as poseurs, lacking the resolve to do anything but talk.

One voter yelled at Harry S. Truman during the 1948 election, "Give em Hell Harry."

Truman answered:
"I don't give them hell. I just tell them about the truth and they think it's hell."

Our truth is that Trump has committed crimes.

We claim no one is above the law.

Let's prove we mean it – by how we act.

There are a variety of possible remedies.

But this is a significant national problem.

We need a "clear and present danger task force" composed of federal, State, and local law enforcement, up and down the east coast, to join their investigative forces as one and to make Trump suffer equal justice under the law and hold him accountable for his criminal misconduct and for trying to overthrow our government.