Oh, Ye of little faith. Time to shed the ghosts of elections past and get on with the hard work of building a softer, gentler, and kinder America. Prepare for good news.

I know many of you panicked and crashed quite understandably last night. But things have changed, you’ve lived through all the horrible stuff, you deserve the good stuff.

Joe Biden just made an eloquent and statesmanlike speech in which he said he is close to victory and promises to represent all Americans, not just people who voted for him.

And the voting results lumbering in suggest he is correct. He would not have made this speech if he weren’t quite sure about it.

That is a stunning contrast to his opponent, who is freaking out online and off, threatening to sue any state that insists on counting votes that might not be for him.

It is scary to hear, but it can’t work.

Several things to know if you’re not watching TV or hiding under the covers.

-Biden is 17 votes away from winning 270 electoral college votes, all he needs to become the next President. He should have the votes he needs by 9 p.m. tonight or Thursday morning.

-Biden is outperforming the polls that predicted he would win many more votes than Donald Trump.

-Biden and Harris have already gotten 70 million votes, more than any other President and Vice-President in American history. Biden is projected to win Michigan, an important state for him.

He is ahead in Nevada and Arizona, and if he wins those two states as expected, he will pass the 270 vote mark required for the electoral college. This could happen as early as tonight, but more likely, sometime tomorrow.

If that occurs, he won’t even need to win Pennsylvania, which has obsessed the President and is expected to draw the most legal challenges and controversy.

In his speech this afternoon, he said, “It’s time for us to do what we have always done as Americans – to put the harsh rhetoric of the campaign behind us, to lower the temperature, to see each other again, to listen to one another, to hear each other again and respect and care for one another. To unite, to heal, to come together as a nation,” he added.

“We are not enemies. What brings us together as Americans are so much stronger than anything they can tear us apart,” Biden said in an eloquent and calming speech from Delaware with Kamala Harris at his side.

We are campaigning as Democrats, but I will govern as an American president,” Biden said. “The presidency, itself, is not a partisan institution. It’s the one office in this nation that represents everyone, and it demands a duty of care for all Americans, and that is precisely what I will do.”

He added: “We have to stop treating our opponents as enemies,” minutes after Donald Trump tweeted that Democrats were his enemies and were committing rampant vote fraud.

The speech is tone perfect and a savvy contrast to Trump, who made a heroic effort to turn the tide in recent weeks but has morphed back into a raging maniac. Those steroids last.

Biden’s message is the message the country needs to hear, it is very different from Trump’s and if he sticks with it, and acts upon it, it could mark the beginning of a change in our poisonous political climate.

Trump will remain a powerful force in American life even if he loses, something has to change for us to change.

Legal observers on both sides are almost unanimous in saying there is no way a higher court could upend a national election with a victory so broad and clear and with so many different and moving parts.

Nor is there any evidence they would wish to. If nothing else, the rabid Federalists and “originalists” Trump has appointed to the court are all about observing the letter of the law, not re-inventing it for the moment. If that changed, they would lose any and all credibility.

Trump is panicking, suing, or threatening to sue just about everything that movies. It’s a death rattle, and it makes him look weak and unhinged. I understand his followers like that and love him for it, but I don’t see that working now.

And it doesn’t work for at least 70 million people.

I am a former bedwetter, so I use the term comfortably. It’s time for people who care about other people to say goodbye to all their ghosts and apply their energies towards working to heal America.

Don’t fret.

Do something.