This is exactly what I am talking about when I talk about some things needing to get dealt with before we can move on and what role "forgiveness" plays.
It is not really about hounding Trump. I have grown to despise him, sure -- he is the antithesis of what I view to be a good and/or mature human being, whether or not he had ever been president (as being president just gave him so much power that he felt free to expose who he was to even a larger degree) -- but it won't fix anything to just be bent on punishment.
However, what he did was smear, erase, and/or even downright remove the rules that we have tried to maintain for our government, social boundaries, the rule of law. Every freaking day was yet another blurring of the boundaries until it's hard to tell what we are and what is allowable. Whether it was him doing it directly or him simply allowing for others to do it without fear of punishment or recrimination, it all amounted to the same thing. The wolves ran rampant in the chicken pen.
Biden's got a lot on his plate now, and whatever administration he brings in with him (plus the American people, we need to be involved), so we have a lot of other things to focus on, yes, including outreach and trying to provide for everyone. But I still think there has to be some level of accountability -- not necessarily to punish people who are out of favor or who we like or dislike, however someone might personally feel about someone, but to just restore the freaking boundaries. The lines have to be drawn clearly again about what is and is not acceptable, and part of this involves smacking some hands.
Again, the goal really is about restoring accountability, the boundaries, what is legally and socially allowable, etc. Everything we have been losing especially in the past four years. People need to know what will be accepted and what will NOT be accepted going forward. If the lines are not made clear, the next Trumpian who comes into office (if that happens) will start where Trump left off.
I am not sure how to move forward without regaining a sense of who we are supposed to be as a people and what is expected of us as a country.