The following post is from May of 2017:
One of the keys to analyzing the Trump presidency is in not only realizing but keeping at the forefront of our mind that this remarkable political upheaval that occurred in 2016 culminating in Donald Trump's win was a decade long process, and actually much longer, where many, multitudes even, of politically perceptive and determined Americans fought a bitter battle on two fronts, the one against the Clinton globalist camp, and the Obama Marxists, and the other against the Republican establishment. Where was Donald Trump during all of this? Well he was firing people on The Apprentice, building casinos and towers, and horsing around with other celebrities vying for that coveted lead role in 'Lifestyles Of The Rich And Famous.'
I for one do not believe that he even thought about actually winning the nomination let alone the presidency at the beginning. It was rather a strikingly bold move to bolster the Trump Brand. He may not smoke but he somehow tossed a smoldering stoogie onto a bonfire mountain of anger ready to be lit. To his credit he didn't bat an eye and grew a lot in this new world that he only previously dealt with in business negotiations. To his discredit he never discarded the Trump Brand. In other words the concerns of you and me and every conservative that put him in office are not his top priority.
For now... all President Trump has to do is give a speech to some military personnel, throw in some of tried and true patriotic vitriol and then tell us that some decision he made was great when it was not great.... and we will believe it. He did that today with a speech after his foreign tour.....we were told that it was a 'home run!' Well it wasn't a 'home run.' He strengthened the Saudi military.....confused the Israelis......had a secret meeting with a 'liberation theology' pontiff and told the G-7 that he hasn't made a decision yet of the Paris Climate Shakedown! This looks more like four outside balls and a walk.
Conservatives are in a pickle....the mother of all pickles! They invested everything in this man, They're avoiding like the plague the reality of who Donald Trump is turning out to be, They should have busted a gut at the very mention of Jared and Ivanka getting anywhere near the Oval Office but they said basically nothing as he filled his administration with the very establishment that half this battle was with.
So what should conservatives do? They should do what we all should do and that is admit that we as a people have walked so far away from God that just about every sound this world produces is heard clearer than God's commands and even offers of mercy if we but turn to Him....not re-turn...for contrary to accepted opinion we do not come under God's admonition and invitation of 2 Chronicles 7:14. We cannot return because we in America were never His people to begin with. Pilgrims and Puritans did indeed come to these shores with the hope of making a shining city built on a hill, and Christians throughout these past four centuries were used by God to bless this nation and through this nation the entire world, but we as a government and a people progressed no further than being a God-fearing government and people and have since even adjudicated that away!
It's this grievous miscalculation that makes us think that a simple move like electing a supposedly conservative president would restore us to God's good graces. God has been warning us with increasingly clear and powerful judgments for over a half a century. He's sent messengers to us in the likes of Billy Graham whose evangelical messages we liked but whose dire warnings we ignored.
One of the keys to analyzing the Trump presidency is in not only realizing but keeping at the forefront of our mind that this remarkable political upheaval that occurred in 2016 culminating in Donald Trump's win was a decade long process, and actually much longer, where many, multitudes even, of politically perceptive and determined Americans fought a bitter battle on two fronts, the one against the Clinton globalist camp, and the Obama Marxists, and the other against the Republican establishment. Where was Donald Trump during all of this? Well he was firing people on The Apprentice, building casinos and towers, and horsing around with other celebrities vying for that coveted lead role in 'Lifestyles Of The Rich And Famous.'
I for one do not believe that he even thought about actually winning the nomination let alone the presidency at the beginning. It was rather a strikingly bold move to bolster the Trump Brand. He may not smoke but he somehow tossed a smoldering stoogie onto a bonfire mountain of anger ready to be lit. To his credit he didn't bat an eye and grew a lot in this new world that he only previously dealt with in business negotiations. To his discredit he never discarded the Trump Brand. In other words the concerns of you and me and every conservative that put him in office are not his top priority.
For now... all President Trump has to do is give a speech to some military personnel, throw in some of tried and true patriotic vitriol and then tell us that some decision he made was great when it was not great.... and we will believe it. He did that today with a speech after his foreign tour.....we were told that it was a 'home run!' Well it wasn't a 'home run.' He strengthened the Saudi military.....confused the Israelis......had a secret meeting with a 'liberation theology' pontiff and told the G-7 that he hasn't made a decision yet of the Paris Climate Shakedown! This looks more like four outside balls and a walk.
Conservatives are in a pickle....the mother of all pickles! They invested everything in this man, They're avoiding like the plague the reality of who Donald Trump is turning out to be, They should have busted a gut at the very mention of Jared and Ivanka getting anywhere near the Oval Office but they said basically nothing as he filled his administration with the very establishment that half this battle was with.
So what should conservatives do? They should do what we all should do and that is admit that we as a people have walked so far away from God that just about every sound this world produces is heard clearer than God's commands and even offers of mercy if we but turn to Him....not re-turn...for contrary to accepted opinion we do not come under God's admonition and invitation of 2 Chronicles 7:14. We cannot return because we in America were never His people to begin with. Pilgrims and Puritans did indeed come to these shores with the hope of making a shining city built on a hill, and Christians throughout these past four centuries were used by God to bless this nation and through this nation the entire world, but we as a government and a people progressed no further than being a God-fearing government and people and have since even adjudicated that away!
It's this grievous miscalculation that makes us think that a simple move like electing a supposedly conservative president would restore us to God's good graces. God has been warning us with increasingly clear and powerful judgments for over a half a century. He's sent messengers to us in the likes of Billy Graham whose evangelical messages we liked but whose dire warnings we ignored.
We've brought this looming disaster upon ourselves and when we saw how bad it was we then looked to ourselves to get out of it. I hope that I never leave myself out of this call to repentance for my dalliances rival those of the best. As for Donald Trump....pray that God might give this man that which he presently does not possess....wisdom and a fear of God that leads to wisdom.
