The above photo is of my hardhat from 2012 to my retirement in 2016. There were a number of very influential conservatives who encouraged Senator (at the time) Jim DeMint to seek the Republican nomination for President but he chose not to.....and really who could blame him. Over the years in the Senate he more than paid his dues to conservatism as the elites in the Republican Party made life in the Congress difficult for him. More recently the Heritage Foundation of which DeMint had served as president....summarily dismissed him. (I cut all ties to that organization) Jim DeMint is now the chairman of the Conservative Partnership Institute. It had been my hope that President Trump would have brought Jim DeMint into his administration but that would have taken wisdom of which Donald Trump has little to none.
I find it real difficult to look ahead to future elections although it has to be done. The problems of the day are so immense that I have to force myself to look past the present. Having said that....Jeff Sessions would be a good challenger to President Trump in the 2020 primaries.
Candidate Donald Trump deceived his way to the nomination in 2016. He is a one-dimensional man and apparently has been his entire life. He simply cannot tell the truth naturally. Bob Woodward's Fear relates how President Trump's own lawyer....John M. Doud....didn't want him to testify under oath in the Mueller probe because of this. He is vindictive to a tee....appears to be soulless....certainly does not care about the Christian Faith beyond the votes that he needs....and is narcissistic to an extreme and dangerous degree. He takes sole credit for everything whether others were involved or even if there is credit due anywhere.
Donald Trump is also a destroyer in that if he's not actively seeking to destroy someone who doesn't bow down to him....Jeff Sessions for example....others are being destroyed simply by coming into his orbit. The conservative movement is now unidentifiable thanks to Donald Trump....and there is no longer any genuine conversation or exchange of ideas on conservative talk radio which has become nothing but 'Donald Trump rally-redact radio.' We are too busy toasting each other shouting...."peace....security....and prosperity"....to notice the tremors below our feet.
There would probably be a challenger to the President in the primaries but this person or persons would most likely come from the establishment.....as all the conservative Republicans across the country have failed us and turned a blind eye to the multifaceted flaws of Donald Trump so as not too offend the MAGA voters....or to 'let Trump be Trump' and just get the most that we can out of him. This challenger that we need would have to take President Trump to task on what has really transpired....not just on what President Trump says that he did....and there's enough information here to last the entirety of the campaign!
So that challenger would start with something like..."So let's go over what you really did on the wall....and immigration....and Obamacare....and tax reform....and the national debt....and a dozen other promises....not what the spin has been....but what actually happened day by day....tell me again how Xi Jinping is such a great guy.....and how you so respect the mass murderer Kim Jong-un....and why Emanuel (God with us) Macron is so perfect....and what was going through your mind as you brought Ivanka and Jared into your inner circle....and how 'there's never been a better time to be young and American'."
Jeff Sessions has over decades consistently upheld conservative views....at times under extreme criticism and duress. Would he consider challenging a sitting Republican President....that is should Donald Trump weather the impeachment threats.....of which we all are opposing? My guess....probably not....but it's worth bringing up....in hopes of waking up conservatives....and Christians....as to who Donald Trump really is....and how we directed our hope away from God....away from His Son Jesus Christ....to a man who despite his vain professions of belief....is not only areligious or irreligious....but essentially profane in his attitude....and even at times blasphemous as was Nebuchadnezzar...."Is this not great Babylon, which I have built by my mighty power....?"
