Discernment Knows Better
July 20, 2026 Leave a comment
History and current events reveal that anything can be rationalized when politics is everything and power its ultimate goal. The same holds true when empathy is everything and the pursuit of inclusion its ultimate goal – anything can be rationalized.
Wayward Christian empathy covers the interior of the oldest cathedral in England in graffiti, making it look like an underground car park, in order to represent the voices of “marginalized communities.”
Cosplay Christian empathy speaks with Christian platitudes and acts out the story it tells itself listening to the MSM narrative about immigration. Its theatrics would have us place a high value on a foreign invader’s human dignity to discourage deportation and place a negative value on immigration law, law enforcement, the country, and thereby, the human dignity of those living here.
The destructive effects of open borders – the flooding of communities and neighborhoods with unvetted foreigners, many with diseased bodies and diseased mindsets – are ignored in MSM narratives and the echoed Coplay Christian stories. Coplay Christians want to be the heroes of their own narratives, as I wrote in my post Self-Central Casting.
Tell me. Have you seen reports on MS NOW or CNN about those invaders who kill, maim, rape, drug to death our neighbors, and do horrible things to our children (See Arrested: Worst of the Worst)?
Tell me. Have you seen those outlets report on those who take jobs and housing and resources from those living here? Have you seen those outlets report on those who want to overthrow the country? Have you seen those outlets report on those who want to turn (colonize) areas of our country into Islamic no-go zones and force Sharia law on the everyone in the area?
See what you see and not what MS NOW or CNN or the NYT wants you to see.
Careless regard toward our neighbors by forcing foreigners upon them via an idealism of “welcoming the stranger” inclusion is not Christianity. Rather, it is coercive Marxist-like redistribution of resources and it is authoritarian, just like what is projected onto Christian nationalists.
The plea for acceptance of the idealist boot on the neck of our neighbor and for Progressivism’s ‘anything goes’ terms of Christianity comes from Christian leaders without discernment and with a desire to be relevant.
From the May 31, 2026 post No Country for Old Men Without Borders:
In the past six months I’ve come across two pastoral letters imploring Christians to think kindly toward the millions of foreign invaders who have illegally crossed our borders to appropriate our country’s resources and thereby impacting the future of our neighbors and the country.
Like with the end game of politics, when empathy is everything and the pursuit of inclusion its ultimate goal, anything can be rationalized.
And that’s how the Rev. Kate Penney Howard finds a way to equate Christian nationalism with the KKK.
The following Facebook post was forwarded to me for comment. I am not on social media and thankfully so. https://www.facebook.com/rev.kate.penney/posts/10243888131684638/
My response is below the post.
Response:
One can expect generalizations and projection in opinion pieces, and that is what you get in this snappy op-ed.
Pastor Howard begins with the generalization “we” referring to Hoosiers and goes on to relate a story about the Indiana KKK that the “we” are retelling themselves.
Her history redux, a 1920s story of “churchgoing” people seeing the KKK as a Christian movement and moral crusade, is projected onto current Indiana citizens that she believes are promoting Christian nationalism involving political will. She warns “we are telling ourselves a story we have told before. It did not end well.”
What are the “we” to do with this op-ed sermonette claiming that Christian nationalism is KKK-like by deciding “who belongs and who does not?” What’s the implication? What’s the sermon’s application? The reader is left to speculate as to the “who” she is referring to and about what “belongs” means to her. Maybe her Facebook followers take in the same media as she does and know what she is inferring.
When empathy is everything and the pursuit of inclusion its ultimate goal, anything can be rationalized. And others can be slandered.
Equating Chrisitan nationalism with the hate-group KKK . . . is she, while decrying Christian nationalism, advocating in a backhanded way for a national policy of inclusion – open borders illegal immigration?
Is she against the Spirit-filled wanting to exercise their right as an Indiana and U.S. citizen to vote for the candidates and polices that decide who’s in and who’s out of the country for the safety and flourishing, not to mention the human dignity, of their family, their neighbors, their communities, and for the common good of all citizens? Would she consider them to be Christian nationalists and therefore KKK-like?
I wonder. Is she inclusive about everything? For example, is she OK with men in women’s sports and women’s locker rooms? Does she ever draw the line? Set boundaries? Exclude?
What does national exclusion and setting boundaries look like in scripture? Let’s ask Nehemiah.
Why did you rebuild the wall of Jerusalem, Nehemiah?
“It was done to restore the city’s protection and honor. The walls had been broken down, leaving the city vulnerable and causing shame among its people. Without fortified walls around the city, the people were left defenseless against enemies. Opponents could easily enter and cause “great trouble” to the people. Rebuilding the walls of Jerusalem was a sign to the enemies of Israel.” (Read more here.)
What did you tell Israel’s enemies, Nehemiah?
“The God of heaven will give us success. We his servants will start rebuilding, but as for you, you have no share in Jerusalem or any claim or historic right to it” (Nehemiah 2:20).
I know that Nehemiah is OT and not ‘enlightened’ or WOKE as progressive Christians are today, BUT, it sure looks like Nehemiah was a Jewish nationalist and that he rebuilt the walls to keep out bad elements. Apparently, not all the strangers encountered in the Bible are the “strangers” that open borders sermonizers want us to welcome with open arms.
Nehemiah didn’t do the Deuteronomy 10:19 “stranger” thing. He didn’t do the Leviticus 19:34 “stranger” thing. And, fast forward, he didn’t do the Matthew 25:38 “stranger” thing.
Remind me. Did Jesus cast out Jewish nationalists or did he cast out unclean spirits – the demonic forces of the strong man in human vessels that were making havoc in the territory around Galilee?
Let’s review the tactics of the forces of the strong man. Those are to smear, slander, poison, accuse, lie, destroy, negate, censor, produce fear to bring about submission, and grab power and more power and more power.
Didn’t Jesus cast out what was trying to corrupt and usurp his kingdom on earth? (Read Mark 5.)
Pastor Howard states “We are hearing pastors and politicians say God has chosen a side.”? I’ve never heard a pastor or politician say this, but Nehemiah and others in the OT have.
Nehemiah certainly says that God had chosen a side. And, he is not alone in his declaration of confidence in God being on his side, a side he understands as aligning with God’s purposes for the defense and good of Israel.
The shepherd-king David, when going to fight Goliath, said “The Lord who rescued me from the paw of the lion and the paw of the bear will rescue me from the hand of this Philistine.” He also said “The Lord is my shepherd” and “The LORD is my rock, my fortress, and my deliverer.” That’s imperious of him, in pastor Howard’s way of thinking.
And when he became king, David’s accountability didn’t disappear because God didn’t abandon him. We learn that David couldn’t justify his adultery and murder before the prophet Nathan. He received the consequences of his actions.
Would you choose a president who acknowledged God and invoked his favor or someone like Obama who considered himself and invoked his ideology?
Contrary to the reverend’s misleading projection onto our nation’s founders about what they understood about claiming divine authority, they (and Abe Lincoln) did align themselves with divine authority and assigned that authority to safeguard their efforts.
The Founders concluded the Declaration of Independence by stating, “For the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the Protection of Divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor.”
The Founders, building a republic and not a theocracy or a utopia, did decide who or what belongs and who or what does not.
Clauses like the Naturalization Clause and the Commerce Clause in the U.S. Constitution’s framework establish a strong federal role in immigration, to regulate immigration and naturalization.
Congress has almost complete authority to decide who may enter or remain in the United States. Congress can create rules for the admission of aliens.
(The recent reckless Supreme Court ruling, Trump v. Barbara, regarding birthright citizenship was decided by four women and John Roberts. The dissenting opinions rightfully claimed that the majority decision was a misread of both the Constitution (the intent of the 14th Amendment and the Civil Rights Act of 1866) and American history. John Roberts decided that English common law was the basis for US. Citizenship. The Constitution says otherwise. Roberts apparently didn’t want to be subject to the jurisdiction thereof. More below.)
With the following, the reverend projects onto Christian nationalism her understanding of what the founders rejected:
“Our nation’s founders [understood] what happened when governments claimed divine authority, how quickly God became a justification for control, exclusion and violence, and they made a choice.”
The founders did reject a state religion such as the Church of England that held significant influence over religious and political life. So, “The Constitution does not mention Jesus.”
But the founders did use religion as justification for “control, exclusion and violence.”
As The Library of Congress records, “Religion played a major role in the American Revolution by offering a moral sanction for opposition to the British–an assurance to the average American that revolution was justified in the sight of God.”
Many Revolutionary War clergy argued that the war against Britain was approved by God. In this sermon Abraham Keteltas celebrated the American effort as “the cause of truth, against error and falsehood . . .the cause of pure and undefiled religion, against bigotry, superstition, and human invention . . .in short, it is the cause of heaven against hell–of the kind Parent of the Universe against the prince of darkness, and the destroyer of the human race.”
The Founders, when establishing the federal government and a framework for conceiving of government and justice, did claim divine authority in the form of God’s providence as revealed in the Judeo-Christian scriptures and nature.
The Founders believed that humans are created in the image of God. They believed that human beings are inherently sinful and there would be no utopia on earth. They believed that God is the source of moral standards and that legislation should be in agreement with moral law. And, they believed that religious liberty is a God-given right and must be protected. The Left in America does not accept any of grounds for government and that is why Christian nationalism is seen as a threat.
The founders were the original Christian Nationalists. America’s earliest statesmen put national interest first.
Perhaps the reverend and her Facebook followers should read the following to gain insight into the founders:
and
Revolution: The Birth of the Greatest Nation in the History of the World
What about a version of Christianity that rejects what the founders established? What about disregarding immigration laws? What about disregarding your neighbors for the sake of better-than-thou religious beliefs? What about promoting open borders globalism? What about the deceitful religions of Progressivism and socialism that undermine reality and the Constitution?
Pastor Howard’s oblique use of “side” is the crux of the op-ed. What “side” is she on? The right way of thinking side as opposed to the “we” side that “feels faithful while it is happening?”
If people want to restore the nation to its Judeo-Christian bearings, is that Christian nationalism? Our heritage is worth preserving. The heritage of freedom of speech, freedom of religion, and the right to bear arms is worth preserving. Even now, Democrats are working to do away with all that in order to produce a secular totalitarian communist state that they believe will heal all wounds. Discernment knows better.
Anything can be rationalized when politics is everything and power its ultimate goal. The same holds true in Christian circles when empathy is everything and the pursuit of inclusion its ultimate goal – anything can be rationalized.
If people want to restore law and order and justice in the courts, is that picking sides or sound judgement? If people want to remove foreign invaders that came to plunder the homeland, is that KKK-like or removing that which is trying to corrupt and usurp what the founders established?
History, which has “a way of exposing what we would rather keep comfortable” has it that there was a coercive demand for the right way of thinking in the Soviet Union. Perhaps the reverend is more comfortable with the ideological orthodoxy of a closed society than the cultural pluralism of an open society she pretends to offer. (Listen to the podcast on the sidebar.)
The reverend reveals her side, her right way of thinking, when she condemns her opponents: “Certain policies were once political preferences but are now divine mandates. Opposing them is seen as rebellion against God.” What are the policies and divine mandates she is referencing? We are left to speculate. Is this about closing the border and deporting illegal migrants?
She says Jesus didn’t want or need political power. OK. But then she says “God does not need a government to do God’s work.” Is she thinking Jesus did away with nations and borders and now everything is open to inclusion and needs her Christian touch?
Yet, God did use government to do His work.
When Jesus was born, Rome had unified much of the world under its government. Under Pax Romana, the empire was relatively peaceful, travel was possible. This allowed Christians to spread the gospel. The Septuagint, the gospels and epistles and other texts handed down to us were not censored.
Romans 13 teaches that all governing authorities are established by God. The role of government is to maintain justice, restrain evil, and serve the common good. Governments provide security and order. Open borders and the Illegal immigration of millions is chaos and anarchy.
While Jesus did say “My kingdom is not of this world” he also taught his disciples to pray, “Your kingdom come. Your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven.” Government, in part, enables the latter. A government founded on Christian principles empowers the latter even more so.
The most dangerous thing about smearing Christian nationalism is that it feels faithful while it is happening. It wraps itself in inclusion theology but speaks the language of SPLC. It makes opposition into the KKK. Discernment knows better.
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I cannot impute a motive onto Rev. Howard for her op-ed in the Fort Wayne Journal-Gazette other than concern about Christian Nationalism. But I can ask if she is concerned with other exclusionary isms.
Is she concerned about the Democratic Socialists of America and their plan to destroy America and bring in communism? Communism will exclude those who don’t align with it. See history.
Is she concerned about the political rise of red-green alliance, a fusion of progressive socialism and Islamism? This alliance will exclude those who don’t align with them. See Mamdani’s NYC.
I can impute a motive onto the hate-funding Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC). Demonizing others is what the nasty Southern Poverty Law center (SPLC) does with hate maps and reports. “Democracy is threatened by anti-democracy extremist white Christian nationalism” is a SPLC narrative and an outright lie to produce fear.
For, Progressivism/globalism/socialism/communism – tyranny itself – cannot take over along as there Christians who are not controlled opposition. Projecting authoritarianism and tyranny onto Christian nationalism is a means to frighten people into submission to their lies. (Fear has also been used to produce submission to the COVID and climate crisis narratives.)
Because the narratives from the nasty Southern Poverty Law center (SPLC) are so pervasive as they filter through various media, it would not surprise me that there are Christian leaders who take them in and then feed these same narratives to their flock (and to social media) using one-part “Christianese” and one part media narrative while thinking they are being apolitical.
Learn about the SPLC. Learn how people are being manipulated:
Mike McDaniel writes Just when you thought SPLC revelations couldn’t get worse… – American Thinker:
A large part of what the SPLC did was to brand innocuous organizations like Turning Point USA or the Family Research Council as “hate” groups. The evidence of that “hate” was that they opposed Democrats and organizations like BLM and Antifa, which somehow were never so SPLC-branded. . .
It’s hard to imagine an organization and people more depraved. Should the allegations be proved, and it seems likely they will be, the SPLC defamed innocent, decent Americans, enriched and helped small groups of evil but largely ineffective people, and badly damaged America by stirring up racial hatred that wouldn’t have existed without their behind-the-scenes manipulations. They knew what buttons to push among black Americans and played on white guilt like harps from Hell, and we’re all the worse for it. (Emphasis mine.)
Even Red States Quietly Use Content from the SPLC | Headline USA:
Parental rights organization Defending Ed published an investigation revealing that nearly 200 school districts and 30 state government entities spread across 42 states and Washington D.C. publicly promote curriculum materials from the Southern Poverty Law Center.
The SPLC currently faces a federal wire fraud indictment. Prior to these charges, the organization became infamous for including mainstream conservative groups on its “hate map.” The Justice Department also opened a criminal investigation into claims the group directed funds to individuals tied to white supremacist movements and allegedly poured millions into efforts to influence Southern elections. . . .
Just the News documented how certain school districts employ aggressive tactics to conceal curricula, psychological programs, and information about which adults interact with students. These same districts, however, openly advertise their partnerships with the SPLC.
The SPLC’s “hate map” designated groups including the late Charlie Kirk’s Turning Point USA, Defending Ed, multiple Moms for Liberty chapters, Alliance Defending Freedom, Gays Against Groomers, and the Family Research Council. The FRC’s placement on that map motivated a terrorist attack against its Washington headquarters in 2013.
“The content often pushes or reinforces far-left cultural and political ideologies such as left-wing activism, anti-racism, Black Lives Matter, gender ideology and queer theory, white privilege, white supremacy, whiteness, and transgenderism,” according to Defending Ed. (Emphasis mine.)
More about the SPLC:
Superseding Indictment Alleges SPLC Funded “Ku Klux Klan garments” and “Cross-Burning Events”
SPLC – Creating Hate To Fundraise To Fight Hate
SPLC charged with offering would-be KKK, Neo-Nazi defectors salaries to stay in, spy on hate groups…
SPLC boss funneled $1.2 million to lover in neo-Nazi group — pair even had joint bank account – AOL
CEO of the SPLC confirms it stands by its May 2025 decision to add TPUSA to its ‘hate map’…
SPLC’s Hate Inflation Strategy…
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History has a way of exposing what Democrats would rather keep comfortable.
The Ku Klux Klan (KKK) was closely associated with the Democrat Party, especially in the South, where most Klansmen were Democrats during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The Klan supported Democrat efforts to establish one-party rule and suppress black political power through violence and intimidation.
The Democrat Party is not against using KKK tactics while denouncing the KKK. They are not against spewing negativity and hate 24/7/365 online and in the media. Read the NYT op-eds. Watch MS-NOW. Watch the View and late night TV Democrats want the strong man’s power to take control.
History and current events reveal that anything can be rationalized when politics is everything and power its ultimate goal.
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Todd Bensman refutes the left’s narrative in Is Trump Trying to Deport Venezuelans to Earthquake ‘Hell’?:
In June 2025, the Supreme Court cleared the administration to send illegal aliens to agreeable safe third countries other than their own. Since then, the administration has collected formal agreements with 15 countries across Latin America and the Caribbean with more coming.
The administration and all those who support its deportation goals have facts in pocket to smoke the patently false binary choice being peddled that it can either heartlessly send Venezuelans straight to “hell” or let them remain illegally in the U.S.
Beyond its opportunity to beat down a fake narrative, the administration possesses the moral and legal authority—and a rich buffet of options it probably didn’t realize it had—to actually speed up this large new deportation project.
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The four women on the Supreme court ruled in favor of birthright citizenship . . .
Helen Andrews wrote in The Great Feminization | Compact
“Wokeness is not a new ideology, an outgrowth of Marxism, or a result of post-Obama disillusionment. It is simply feminine patterns of behavior applied to institutions where women were few in number until recently . . .
Everything you think of as wokeness involves prioritizing the feminine over the masculine: empathy over rationality, safety over risk, cohesion over competition . . .
“The threat posed by wokeness can be large or small depending on the industry . . . The field that frightens me most is the law. All of us depend on a functioning legal system, and, to be blunt, the rule of law will not survive the legal profession becoming majority female. The rule of law is not just about writing rules down. It means following them even when they yield an outcome that tugs at your heartstrings or runs contrary to your gut sense of which party is more sympathetic.
“The problem is not that women are less talented than men or even that female modes of interaction are inferior in any objective sense. The problem is that female modes of interaction are not well suited to accomplishing the goals of many major institutions.” (Emphasis mine.)
Here’s a woman with discernment:
American Thinker Takeaways, July 6, 2026
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Guiding the left is the fear that if permitted to go unchecked, the fact that America is indeed a Christian nation as designed would not be questioned. And so the left continues its enduring war on faith by trying to make it so that you’re an outcast simply for trying to insert the Judeo-Christian God into the conversation. Divide and conquer.
And so we have a battle today where a minority would have you believe that America is not a Christian nation, that if it can’t defeat Christianity through persuasion, it will do so by generating sheer numbers of imported people from other countries who practice other religions; by destroying anyone who would dare to mention their Christian faith in public life; and by shunning anyone who would openly and unapologetically profess his or her faith in Hollywood, the entertainment industry, or in the news media; and by marginalizing Christian faith in academia and in the schools. (Emphasis mine.)
On America 250: A Prayer for Our Country – PJ Media
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The most damaging decision of the term, however, was Trump v. Barbara. In a ruling that will stand as a stain on the Court’s legacy, Chief Justice Roberts and Justice Barrett joined the liberal justices to effectively preserve near-blanket birthright citizenship. This was a profound misreading of the Fourteenth Amendment’s Citizenship Clause. The authors of that Amendment, including Senator Lyman Trumbull of Illinois — a close friend and ally of Abraham Lincoln — made clear on the floor of the Senate that the clause was intended to secure citizenship for the children of emancipated slaves, not to create a magnet for illegal immigration or confer citizenship on the children of foreign nationals who owe no allegiance to the United States.
Not only the 14th Amendment, but the Civil Rights Act of 1866, passed by the same Congress, expressly limited citizenship to those “not subject to any foreign power.” That phrase, alone, signaled congressional intent to end blanket birthright citizenship. (Emphasis mine.)
The 2026 Supreme Court — a ‘C Minus’ at Best – American Thinker
Trump v. Barbara: Suicide by Cop-Out – American Thinker
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Added 7-28-2026:
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Cindy Wity 
Build Back Better Evangelicalism?
June 30, 2024 Leave a comment
Does Evangelicalism need image consultants for damage control? Evangelicals on the Trump train – are they on the wrong track?
I ask because there are certain Christians who think that the image of Evangelicalism has been damaged by an “unholy” association with Trump and his supporters. Certain Christians are worried about what people think about Evangelicalism with its brand of Jesus and the gospel.
The Build Back Better campaign to restore the image of Evangelicalism is concerned about two things: Evangelicals promoting a man of Trump’s character and (using the language of the Left) the “extremist” and “fascist” character of so-called Christian nationalism.
No doubt, Trump has an earthy communication style. He’s from New York. He speaks like a New Yorker and not like Evangelicals and Evangelical elites. On the record is a September 2005 conversation when he spoke in graphic, vulgar language about trying to commit adultery and forcing himself on women.
Eleven years later (October 7, 2016) and one month before the United States presidential election, the Washington Post published a video and article about the conversation between then-presidential candidate Donald Trump and television host Billy Bush. Trump immediately issued an apology on Facebook, posted Friday, October 7, 2016:
“Here is my statement. I’ve never said I’m a perfect person, nor pretended to be someone that I’m not. I’ve said and done things I regret, and the words released today on this more than a decade-old video are one of them. Anyone who knows me, know these words don’t reflect who I am. I said it, it was wrong, and I apologize. I’ve travelled the country talking about change for America. But my travels have also changed me. I’ve spent time with grieving mothers who’ve lost their children, laid off workers whose jobs have gone to other countries, and people from all walks of life who just want a better future. I have gotten to know the great people of our country, and I’ve been humbled by the faith they’ve placed in me. I pledge to be a better man tomorrow, and will never, ever let you down. Let’s be honest. We’re living in the real world. This is nothing more than a distraction from the important issues we are facing today. We are losing our jobs, we are less safe than we were 8 years ago and Washington is broken. Hillary Clinton, and her kind, have run our country into the ground. I’ve said some foolish things, but there is a big difference between words and actions. Bill Clinton has actually abused women and Hillary has bullied, attacked, shamed and intimidated his victims. We will discuss this more in the coming days. See you at the debate on Sunday.”
After hearing about the conversation, Trump’s wife Melania put out her own statement:
“The words my husband used are unacceptable and offensive to me. This does not represent the man that I know. He has the heart and mind of a leader. I hope people will accept his apology, as I have, and focus on the important issues facing our nation and the world.”
And Trump’s former campaigner, Corey Lewandowski, said on CNN, “Is this defensible? I don’t think so.”
“But we’re not choosing a Sunday school teacher here.”
I wonder. Should all Christian Never Trumpers have their past conversations exposed, as was done to Trump? I think it should be done. Never-Trumpers, as they are wont to tell us, are very concerned about the character of those they surround themselves with and support. For example:
Christians Against Trumpism & Political Extremism, was founded by friends and partners John Kingston and Joel Searby. It is at root a spiritual endeavor, because John and Joel believe in the potential for renewal in our church and the nation.
The wife of the staunch Never Trumper David French, Nancy French, is a supporter of this organization as are other of our Christian “betters” who are very worried about “the darkness of Trumpism and other political extremism.”
But the following recent report is sullying for all in support of this “informal yet organized group of Christian leaders, thinkers, influencers, and everyday believers who publicly stand against the personal behavior, degrading policy proposals, and poisonous rhetoric modeled by President Trump and extremist groups from the far left and right.”
The “Christians Against Trumpism” co-founder [Joel Searby] is facing charges for lewd/lascivious conduct, two counts of obscene communications related to luring a minor to meet for sex, and using a two-way communications device to facilitate a felony.
‘Christians Against Trumpism’ Co-Founder Arrested for Soliciting Sex from 15-Year-Old Boy | The Gateway Pundit | by Brian Lupo
And, here’s Never-Trumper David French in “extremist” mode:
CANNON: Never-Trumper David French Picks Half a Million Abortions Over Trump Being Re-Elected… Seriously. – The National Pulse
And, again, David French in “extremist” mode:
NYT Columnist Says Trump Support Less Excusable Than Slavery. (thenationalpulse.com)
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Can Anything Good Come Out of Trump Tower?
Would God use a person of “questionable character” to lead the country?
In the previous post I wrote . . .
Like all of us, Jacob is a work in progress. He is of questionable character and not someone we would have thought of to be the namesake (Israel) of a nation of people who are to represent God’s character to the world. But God, in His wisdom and mercy, works with Jacob – his faults, his dysfunction, his deceitful ways, and his sins – and seeks to redeem him for his purposes. God is slow to anger and plenteous in mercy (cf. Psalm 103: 6-18) (unlike many judgmental types today who are loathe to work with God to redeem relationships with those they do not consider worthy of redemption.)
No doubt, if today’s Evangelical image consultants lived back then they would have worked vigorously to keep the scoundrel Jacob out of that role. They sure wouldn’t associate with Jacob. “He’s not one of us,” they would say.
“Teacher,” said John, “we saw someone driving out demons in your name and we told him to stop, because he was not one of us.”
“Do not stop him,” Jesus said. “For no one who does a miracle in my name can in the next moment say anything bad about me, for whoever is not against us is for us. Truly I tell you, anyone who gives you a cup of water in my name because you belong to the Messiah will certainly not lose their reward.
-The gospel of Mark 9:38-41
Over and over in the gospels I find Jesus being counter-cultural. He isn’t constrained by demands of the image consultants – the Pharisees and legal experts, the religious types.
There are certain Christians who are very ‘concerned’ about Trump being associated with Evangelicalism because he is “not one of us.” (Trump’s not the squeaky-clean sweet old Sunday School teacher type– someone who looks Evangelical and talks Evangelical-ese – that we had in mind for the position.)
But haven’t Never-Trumpers and all Americans received a cup of water in the form of humanitarian goodness – peace and prosperity – under the scoundrel Trump’s first term? Was Trump working against Christians or for us? Wasn’t the Unprecedented Economic Boom under Trump something of a miracle?
The arm chair holier-than-MAGA disparagers no doubt benefitted from Trump’s presidency.
Trump Administration Accomplishments – The White House (archives.gov)
A summary:
Unprecedented Economic Boom (3-1/2 years before the Chinese-Fauci virus), including:
Jobless claims hitting a nearly 50-year low
The number of people claiming unemployment insurance as a share of the population hit its lowest on record
Incomes rose in every single metro area in the United States for the first time in nearly 3 decades.
Income inequality fell for two straight years, and by the largest amount in over a decade.
The bottom 50 percent of American households saw a 40 percent increase in net worth.
Wages rose fastest for low-income and blue-collar workers – a 16 percent pay increase.
Tax Relief for the Middle Class
Massive Deregulation
Fair and Reciprocal Trade
American Energy Independence
Investing in America’s Workers and Families
Life-Saving Response to the China Virus – Restricted travel to the United States from infected regions of the world.
Remaking the Federal Judiciary
Achieving a Secure Border
Restoring American Leadership Abroad
Serving and Protecting Our Veterans
Making Communities Safer
Cherishing Life and Religious Liberty, and more.
During Trump’s first term there were NO wars. There was a Middle East peace deal – the Abrahamic accords. Constitutionalist SCOTUS justices were installed, securing Democracy. (Abortion decisions are to be made at state level.) And, . . .
Supreme Court delivers MASSIVE VICTORY for J6 politcal prisoners and a crushing blow to regime’s lawfare…
Supreme Court overturns Chevron deference, striking MASSIVE blow to the administrative state…
By shooting down ‘Chevron deference’ doctrine, SCOTUS restored democratic rulemaking, experts say | Just The News
Under Trump there was no invasion of our southern border.
There were no flood of illegals murdering our daughters.
Illegal Alien From Turkey Accused of Raping 15-Year-Old Girl in Albany, NY (legalinsurrection.com)
Open Borders Subject Women and Girls in the US to Rapes and Wanton Violence | Frontpage Mag
Under Trump there was no deluge of fentanyl killing people.
There was no surge of terrorists, gangs and drug cartels.
Inflation was around 2%. People had money to support themselves, buy a home, and to give to charitable causes like The Roy’s Report and The Trinity Forum, (where Never-Trumpers hawk their Never-Trumper wares.)
Americans weren’t ghosted by Trump. Trump was ghosted by Never-Trumpers who supported the mess we have today.
Under Bidenomics – “You will own nothing and be happy.”
This Is Fine: Average Salary Required to Own a Home Increased 80.5% Under Biden – Twitchy
During Trump’s four years in the White House, Never-Trumpers sat around and whined and nitpicked about all things Trump. They had the time and the means to write books about terrible Trump and Evangelical MAGA “extremists” who will destroy “Democracy!!”
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“White Raging” Rubes and MAGA Christians
Keep in mind two of Saul Alinsky’s 13 Rules for Radicals that are at work in Never-Trumper’s campaigns:
– “Ridicule is man’s most potent weapon.” There is no defense. It’s irrational. It’s infuriating. It also works as a key pressure point to force the enemy into concessions.”
– “Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it.” Cut off the support network and isolate the target from sympathy. Go after people and not institutions; people hurt faster than institutions.
The sneering class has deemed people of MAGA persuasion “deplorables” “bitter clingers” “extremists” “conspiracy theorists” “xenophobes”, “authoritarians”, and “fascists.” And MAGA Christians are deemed not just “a threat to Evangelicalism!” but to “DEMOCRACY!”
This while, (Our Statement – Christians Against Trumpism) . . .
“Political extremism, whether from the “left” or the “right,” uses violence, chaos, and degrading language as tools for social change.”
See above for who uses degrading language. But who uses violence and chaos as tools for social change? The “extremist” Left, for example;
Portland’s grim reality: 100 days of protests, many violent | AP News
47 arrested, 59 officers injured in Seattle protests that turned violent – KIRO 7 News Seattle
Masked Activists Violently Attack Jews at North Carolina Public Library – Algemeiner.com
Judge Rejects Biden Admin Bid To Dismiss Lawsuit Over ‘Illegal and Dangerous’ $1.5 Billion Palestinian Payment Plan (freebeacon.com)
We are told on MSM that us hobbits are white raging rubes who don’t know any better and are in a cult of personality and that the Christians in this sad group are making Christianity look bad. With the election season upon us, there’s a growing list of shaming screeds promoted on MSNBC.
These Never-Trumper books are meant to make readers feel morally superior if they make the ‘right’ choice: to not support and vote for Trump. Three of these authors want to move you in the direction of being an ‘acceptable’ Christian and politically ‘acceptable’ in their eyes:
Tim Alberta and The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory: American Evangelicals in an Age of Extremism, published December 5, 2023
Tom Schaller and Paul Waldman with White Rural Rage: The Threat to American Democracy published on February 27, 2024
Jim Wallis: The False White Gospel: Rejecting Christian Nationalism, Reclaiming True Faith, and Refounding Democracy, published April 2, 2024
The After Party: Toward Better Christian Politics, Nancy French and Curtis Chang, based on project by David French, Russell Moore & Curtis Chang, published April 23, 2024
Please don’t tell me that these authors are writing and talking about these things to protect Jesus from the rabble. “Put down your sword, Peter.” Jesus – very God and the One who cast out demons and calmed the storm – is not beholden to anyone for protection. Their version of Christianity is what they are protecting.
Tom Schaller and Paul Waldman of White Rural Rage: The Threat to American Democracy went on MSNBC to push their polemic rant of a poorly researched book. They posit “fourfold threats” coming from the “White rural” rube demographic:
Victor Davis Hanson reviewed On White Rural Rage by Tom Schaller & Paul Waldman: All the rage | The New Criterion. He handily refutes the book’s “often-incoherent polemic.” Here’s his response to number 3 of the “fourfold threats” posed by raging “Whites”:
“In their psychodramatic formulation, the authors allege that
“U.S. democracy is in peril. Ballot blockers, wannabe authoritarians, White Christian nationalists, and constitutional sheriffs each pose existential and often overlapping threats to American constitutional government. Unfortunately, rural Whites form the tip of the spear for each of these movements.
“No data is supplied to support such an “existential” threat, much less one originating in rural white America—other than polls that suggest about half the nation feels that America is a Christian nation.”
Hanson’s impression of the book . . .
“White Rural Rage is for the most part a compilation of misleading polls, left-wing news accounts, interviews with state and local Democratic politicos, and sloppy, cherry-picked references to and quotes from kindred academics that reinforce the authors’ preexisting belief in a vast rural white cabal of violent racists and conspiracists. . .
“In the end, White Rural Rage is not so much a warning about a national, seething, rural white danger to democracy as it is a projection of the fears of elite white authors, conspiracy-minded as they often are themselves.”
Tim Alberta, journalist and staff writer for The Atlantic and author of The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory: American Evangelicals in an Age of Extremism, was also showcased on MSNBC to promote his own psychodramatic formulation about MAGA Christians. He also podcasted on The Trinity Forum where he talked about his book and on The Roy’s Report where he talked about The Corrupting of American Evangelicalism. Julie Roys interviewed Tim Alberta and shares his concerns about Evangelicalism.
Listening to the Trinity Forum podcast, I understood Tim Alberta to say that Christians should understand that as Christians they live “under siege” and basically that they should cool their jets (don’t get out of hand) and get used to abuse and persecution because that’s the way it is for Christians. I get the sense from Tim that Christians should be more like white suburban women, like Julie Roys.
Alternatively, on The Roy’s Report website – “reporting the truth and restoring the church” – Julie Roys posts articles and podcasts exposing abuse within the church. Victims of abuse (typically women) submit to the abuser (typically male) for a while and then they react and take action. You hear their stories on the website’s podcasts.
Per Alberta, shouldn’t church abuse victims just be quiet and take it like good little Christians?
Are we to believe that reacting to church abuse is more Christian than reacting to political abuse?
Isn’t it good to work to forestall persecution in society? Should Christians clamor to be martyrs?
Is it OK to expose and denounce abusive leaders in church but not leaders in politics? Never-Trumpers criticize Trump all day long. If MAGA criticizes what is being forced on them by the Left they are labeled
“extremists” and “a threat to democracy.”
What about “reporting the truth and restoring America” – is that out of Evangelical bounds?
Aberta labels “Trumpism as a kind of sub-cult in the evangelical world,” Wow. To use his own term, that is “extremist” language.
Is it Ok for Never-Trumper Christians to vilify MAGA Christians?
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“Unholy mix”
The Roys Report promo for Corrupting of American Evangelicalism podcast:
“On this edition of The Roys Report, bestselling author and journalist Tim Alberta joins host Julie Roys to explore a disturbing phenomenon in American evangelicalism. Though once evangelicals understood that the Kingdom of God and the kingdom of men are separate, now the two are being combined into an unholy mix. And sadly, for millions of conservative Christians, America is their kingdom—and proper adherence to their political ideology is their litmus test for Christian orthodoxy!
“. . .major players and institutions within the evangelical movement that have succumbed to political idolatry.
“. . . mixing political advocacy with the gospel is misleading and wrong.”
Huh?!? You wouldn’t advocate for someone willing to abolish slavery and drug and sex trafficking? You wouldn’t advocate for someone willing to bring peace and prosperity and uphold the rule of law? Are these good things outside the bounds of The Roys Report gospel?
“Though once evangelicals understood that the Kingdom of God and the kingdom of man were separate, now the two are being combined into an unholy mix.” Huh?!?
When Jesus came to Galilee proclaiming the good news of God and saying, “The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God has come near; repent, and believe in the good news” the kingdom of God and the kingdom of man came together in an “unholy mix” and Christians have been trying to sort out what that means.
And when Jesus sat at dinner in Levi’s house, many tax collectors and sinners were also sitting with Jesus and his disciples, for there were many who followed him. Now there’s an “unholy mix” according to the scribes of the Pharisees – guardians of their religion’s image.
Jesus taught his disciples to pray May your kingdom come, may your will be done, as in heaven so on earth? Sounds political, especially when the elements of this world fight against that happening and work to divide Christians with books, documentaries, media campaigns, etc.
Calling Jesus “Lord” is political. Living under his lordship is political.
(I don’t understand Jesus of the gospels as docile, demure and worried about image. He did take offense when the scribes who came down from Jerusalem said, “He has Beelzebul, and by the ruler of the demons he casts out demons.” They were implying unholy things about the Holy Spirit.)
(Note: In the podcast, Tim Alberta and Julie Roys set their disapproving sights on Liberty University, Jerry Falwell Sr., Jerry Falwell, Jr., Robert Jeffress, and Ralph Reed. They don’t talk about Francis Schaeffer, Focus on the Family or other Christians who were engaged early on in the culture and politics.)
The Roys Report put out another NeverTrump article, one written by Jim McDermott promoting a documentary:
‘Bad Faith’ Sounds The Alarm On The Past & Future of Christian Nationalism (julieroys.com)
(BAD FAITH is a feature-length documentary that explores the dangerous rise of Christian Nationalism in the United States. Part archival chronicle, part exposé, the film reveals the secretive political machinery that has relentlessly sought to weaken and destroy American democracy in order to promote its authoritarian vision. Bad Faith – Movie Reviews | Rotten Tomatoes)
Jim McDermott writes:
“In Bad Faith: Christian Nationalism’s Unholy War on Democracy, filmmakers Stephen Ujlaki and Chris Jones trace the origins of Christian nationalism from the Ku Klux Klan in the 19th century through the creation of the Moral Majority, the sudden rise of the tea party and the election of Donald Trump. What they uncover is an essential aspect of our current political situation, one that puts evangelical Christianity in new light.”
(Note: The records of Congress reveal that not one Democrat either in the House or the Senate voted for the 14th Amendment. Three years after the Civil War, and the Democrats from the North as well as the South were still refusing to recognize any rights of citizenship for black Americans.”)
One of its filmmakers, Stephen Ujlaki, spoke in an interview by phone in Los Angeles, about the making of “Bad Faith”. Here are excerpts from that interview:
“When Trump got elected, I was shocked. Nobody thought he had a chance. He was obviously a joke. It was never going to happen. When he got elected, I realized I didn’t really know anything about what was going on. I was in a bubble.
“More than anything, . . . the film was just to find out: How did [Trump} do it, how did he win, and who were the Christian evangelicals (who supported him)? But then I discovered all of this plotting, all of these deals, and the fact that those behind them were anti-democratic from the beginning.”
“Would it be fair to say Christian nationalism’s goal is fascism? Yes. It’s pure fascism. It’s pure power.”
“Bad Faith” . . . tells of how a large swath of religious voters came to believe that President Joe Biden is in league with the devil while Trump is essential to the spiritual salvation of America.”
(Not: Joe Biden is in league with a lot of bad actors as we find out more and more about his dealings. Trump during his first term did “save’ the nation from decline and left Democracy still standing.)
Ujlaki wants us to know that Christian nationalism “has nothing to do with theology, nothing to do with religion, nothing to do with God or with Jesus. I don’t even consider Christian nationalism as a religion. What is its ethos? What is its morality? It’s actually amoral, which is why it uses the church. The church lends it that moral, ethical authority that it doesn’t have otherwise.”
“If you look around you at the divisiveness and the distrust of institutions that exist today in this country, you will realize how incredibly successful they have been in executing their plan. It’s been like a slow-motion revolution in a way, happening bit by bit all over the place.”
The creators of Bad Faith have shown their own Bad Faith by knowingly misrepresenting, with a broad brush, Christians who want to restore America and Chrisitan values when having to deal with Progressivism’s in-your-face values. It appears the documentary, like the books above, was created in time to impact the 2024 election – to scare voters away from anything Chrisitan and Trump.
Never-Trumper David French has continuously railed against Trump. He thinks Trump supporters have “unrighteous rage.” In this self-promoting mea culpa, French uses the divisive language of the Left: “rage.”:
“French, who has now spent the best part of a decade bemoaning the 45th President, now acknowledges the “bond” between Donald Trump and most Republican voters and concludes:
“I don’t regret my arguments against Trump. I’d make them again, and I will continue making them. I do ask myself how I missed the sheer extent of Republican anger. And I’m deeply, deeply grieved by the thought that I did anything in my life before Trump to contribute to that unrighteous rage.”
Do white suburban women and their epicene men find railing against Trump both titillating and necessary to emote their tribal scorn of Trump?
BTW: Democratic strategist James Carville is very concerned that ‘preachy females are to blame for Biden’s polling numbers:
“A suspicion of mine is that there are too many preachy females. Don’t drink beer. Don’t watch football. Don’t eat hamburgers. This is not good for you – the message is too feminine,” Carville said. “If you listen to Democratic elites — NPR is my go-to place for that — the whole talk is about how women, and women of color, are going to decide this election. I’m like: ‘Well, 48 percent of the people that vote are males. Do you mind if they have some consideration?”
‘Preachy females’ blamed for Biden’s polling numbers: ‘This is about driving men out of the Democratic Party’ | Fox News
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“unrighteous rage”?
According to people like French there were no catalysts for MAGA anger. There was no hellish COVID handling with church closings, social distancing, masking and vaccine mandates. There has been no “fundamental transformation” of America. Our children were never indoctrinated with CRT and Queer Theory. There has been no “trans” mutilation of children, no drug trafficking and fentanyl deaths. There has been no FBI monitoring of Catholics who want Latin masses. There has been no massive illegal migration. No highest rate of inflation. There has been no janky lawfare to hamstring Trump and no political persecution. Yeah right.
This Is Fine: Average Salary Required to Own a Home Increased 80.5% Under Biden – Twitchy
The Left, along with the enabling Never-Trumpers, have created the existential crisis they claim Christians on the Right have created. The Left, along with the Never-Trumpers, have created a Constitutional crisis just like what happened before the Civil war. Our country has been exposed to great evil, incompetence, and risk under Joe Biden and the Democrats with the help of the Never-Trumpers who put them in power.
We are told that Christian Nationalism poses “a threat to democracy!” This is projection and a lie. It is the Democrats who are putting political opponents in jail. It is the Democrats who wanted to take Trump off the ballot. It is the Democrats who stole the 2020 election and are working to steal the 2024 election.
15 Secretaries Ignore Subpoenas While Refusal Lands Bannon In Jail (thefederalist.com)
Tell me, is it the Christians who are in control of things or is it the Progressives who taken over every aspect of society with their long march through the institutions? Progressive Christians write against Christians who oppose them calling them an “extremist threat.” But Christians working against Progressivism’s lies and authoritarian ways are not “a threat to democracy!”
Given that it’s an election year, Democrats and Never-Trumpers will unleash every tactic under the sun to disrupt the 2024 election. See the above for a sample. They are franticly trying to keep Trump out of the White House. Trump will take apart the administrative state that rules every inch of our lives, that so enjoys having rule over every inch of our lives.
Who will the Never-Trumpers vote for this November? Will they vote or stay home? Will they vote for the continued destruction of America and more of the Biden regime. Will they vote for neo-con Nikki Haley and more wars? If they vote solely on the basis of character, as they say they do, then who will they vote for? Is there someone who looks and talks Evangelical like the stiff Mike Pence? Ron DeSantis?
It seems that elite Christians, of either political stripe, spend their days with their tribe and in their bubble. And it seems they believe themselves to be the voice of reason, pluralist, inclusive, and magnanimous to a fault. Next to the Trump they portray they come across as good little Christians. And that is why they are loved by the Left and paraded thru MSNBC, CNN, WaPo, NYT, etc. They are controlled opposition.
The image consultants of Build Back Better Evangelicalism have no clue about us Hobbits. They view people from top down – not as one of them. Middle America has been ghosted by them.
God works in mysterious ways, but the elites – the scribes and Pharisees of Christianity – proscribe ways, fundamentalist ways, that God must not work. How sad! My Lord doesn’t need image management. And I don’t need their sanctimonious scolding.
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Are people now afraid to put the American flag in front of their home out of fear people will think them patriotic and Christian and nationalist? Fear is the psyop produced by the Left to get people to back off love of their country. Progressives along with Globalist-dominionists have plans for you. Totalitarians include, as I have written about, the World Economic Forum (WEF) and the World Health Organization (WHO) and the Democratic party.
“If you grew up in the 21st century, all you know is our current hangdog, ashamed, self-conscious country, embarrassed by its own shadow, tail between its legs, stooping and supplicating, begging everyone’s forgiveness for its sins.
“But if you were fortunate to have experienced any of the last few decades of the 20th, then you know: it was not always thus! The national vibe (until quite recently!) was cool confidence bordering on arrogance.”
American Swagger – Peachy Keenan’s Extremely Domestic
Independence Day is Thursday. Put your flag out.
Patriotic picture of the day
“After a windstorm last July, the flag in front of our home got flipped up and stuck on the flagpole. My boyfriend, an Air Force veteran, went outside to untangle it. About 15 minutes later, I realized he was still there, admiring the flag and watching the cars go by. I grabbed my camera and took this photo from our kitchen window. My boyfriend had no idea until he came inside, but now he thinks it’s just as idyllic as I do.” —Michele Garrant, Mooers Forks, New York
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Evangelicals, after all, have made heroes of those who have smuggled Bibles behind the Iron Curtain, who have sought to evangelize tribes that met them with arrows, and who have engaged in bait-and-switch campaigns closer to home, such as “study skills seminars” offered on college campuses or “neighborhood clubs” hosted in summertime backyards that conclude with an unadvertised gospel call.
The ultimate end of winning souls justifies a sometimes-startling variety of means. One might wonder to what extent this tradition of pragmatic ethical bargaining has enabled evangelicals to support Donald Trump.
Evangelical support for Trump continues to be wildly inconsistent with some basic Christian values. It is also, however, consistent with a combination of fear and exceptionalism—along with a flexible pragmatism—that has been part of the story of American evangelicalism going back to its seventeenth-century roots.
Donald Trump and the Exceptions of American Evangelicalism – The University of Chicago Divinity School (uchicago.edu)
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The Left Doesn’t Want You to See What You See
Remember Build Back Better and the Inflation Reduction Act?
The Biden Economy Image Consultants want us to believe Trump will be a disaster for the economy.
But, The Nobel Laureates Strike Out | City Journal (city-journal.org)
Modern Monetary Theory employed by the Biden Regime has created the massive debt and inflation that we and our children and grandchildren must live with.
“Most Americans believe it is unhinged to deliberately destroy the border and allow 10 million illegal aliens to enter the country without background audits, means of support, any claims to legal residency, and definable skills. And worse still, why would federal authorities be ordered to release repeat violent felons who have gone on to commit horrendous crimes against American citizens?
“Equally perplexing to most Americans is borrowing $1 trillion every 90 days and paying 5-5.5% interest on the near $36 trillion in ballooning national debt. Serving that debt at current interest exceeds the size of the annual defense budget and may soon top $1 trillion in interest costs, or more than 13% of the budget. . .
“The Biden years did the country great damage and rendered Biden himself one of the most unpopular incumbent presidents in American history. But his agendas may have fundamentally changed the country for decades, if not longer—and will require tough remedies that may be almost as unpopular as the wreckage they wrought.” – Victor Davis Hanson
The Logic in All the Madness – Victor Davis Hanson
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The Character of The Lincoln Project:
21 Men Accuse John Weaver, Lincoln Project Co-Founder, of Online Overtures and Harassment – The New York Times (nytimes.com)
Inside the Lincoln Project: Claims of harassment, sexism, ‘toxic’ workplace (usatoday.com)
Lincoln Project founders knew of alleged harassment months before they claimed (usatoday.com)
Anti-Trump ‘Lincoln Project’ Paid $35,000 to Hackers. (thenationalpulse.com)
Lincoln Project, Co-Founded by ‘Predator’ John Weaver, Funded ‘Bloodbath’ Hoaxsters MeidasTouch. (thenationalpulse.com)
The Lincoln Project: Leadership
Regarding Steve Bannon going to prison:
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Water, Rural Rage, and Popular Classes
June 13, 2024
Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Jack Fowler talk about the California water madness, the Gaza pier bust, white rural rage hoax, and why the international leftists hate the popular classes.
Water, Rural Rage, and Popular Classes – Victor Davis Hanson (victorhanson.com)
Home – VDH’s Blade of Perseus (victorhanson.com)
Biography – VDH’s Blade of Perseus (victorhanson.com)
Read this instead:
The Unprotected Class: How Anti-White Racism Is Tearing America Apart: Carl, Jeremy: 9781684514588: Amazon.com: Books
The Unprotected Class – Chronicles (chroniclesmagazine.org)
No wonder, then, that we should expect some sort of similar hoax to arise before the 2024 election. Do not be surprised when told of a “secret” Trump plan uncovered to round up critics in 2025 and send them to “camps,” or lurid revelations about “evidence” that Trump is in worse physical and mental shape than is a debilitated Biden, or some fantastic MAGA plot to implement “voter suppression,” or allegations that the Trump campaign’s “dark money” involves “collusion,” “disinformation,” and “sinister foreign actors.”
How Left-wing Conspiracies Work – Victor Davis Hanson (victorhanson.com)
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I said this would happen:
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