If one would read....and traverse by way of these words the life of Donald Trump....from his childhood days....through military school and college....to his first years working with his father....and step by step the creation of the tycoon tabloid sensation....right up to 2015 and the primaries....and then in essence live with him through those books in his now nearing four years as the President of the United States....one would have to conclude as I and many others have....that it is the exact same person....with no change or maturity....that appeared on the debate stage in Cleveland.
Every day of his life is in some way either the continuing of a con game or a new one. He has no need of anyone in his grand scheme. His pious comments on his brother Robert seemed contrived....knowing the history of his relationships. He used his father but his mother hardly appears anywhere. He belittled his eldest son....concerned from the beginning that a 'Don Jr.' might be a loser and thus reflect on himself....and Ivanka is primarily in his mind an important asset. People have either recoiled at being near him....or had been lured by the brightness of the flame....only to sooner or later be burned by that flame.
Those on what we know as the 'Left" read these books....after having lived side by side with him as they laughed at his rise....and now regurgitate at the mere mention of his name. Those of us who proudly claim to be on the 'Right'....have no desire to read about the man who we vicariously live through....who attacks those who had tormented us for decades since the rise of the Clintons....who gives what we perceive to be a legitimacy to our most base human desires... changing us into a likeness of him along the way....and assuaging any guilt that might arise from our greed and hypocrisy....and creeping racism....and disregard for human life in this pandemic....with pious and worthless and pitiful ditties about how we are "one glorious nation under God."
If this were only the latest reality show in American politics it would be one thing.....but it is not. We in evangelicalism have taken the easy road....through Vanity Fair....bouyed by the promises of making America great again....that same fake spirit of greatness of which God warned the Laodiceans in Revelation 3:16...."I will spit you out of My mouth."
This same seriously disturbed man who was on that debate stage....who has Putin licking his lips....and whose tariff war may have pushed China's back up against the wall....and who plays with Erdogan....and treats Israel's security as if all that was needed to be done was to pay off their enemies....this man who has no self-control whatsoever....may interpret his repeated escapes from what normally would send a politician to retirement or worse....as some sort of divine mantle placed upon him.....if he hasn't already.
