Desert Sun readers sound off on President-elect Donald Trump and the election in today's letters to the editor.

The day is dark, the forces arrayed are tenacious, but as the late Nation editorial board member Toni Morrison wrote “No! This is precisely the time when artists go to work. There is no time for despair, no place for self-pity, no need for silence, no room for fear. We speak, we write, we do language. That is how civilizations heal.”

Biden insists that he'll do everything he can to make the transition to the next Trump administration go smoothly.