A man who becomes a myth in his own life is hard for historians to deal with. I do not envy future historians attempting to explain the age of Trump to future generations.
Improbable and Mythic
- Donald R. McClarey
Donald R. McClarey
Cradle Catholic. Active in the pro-life movement since 1973. Father of three, one in Heaven, and happily married for 43 years. Small town lawyer and amateur historian. Former president of the board of directors of the local crisis pregnancy center for a decade.
I have an explanation. Reaction formation. After 50 years of LBJ, Nixon, Jimmy Carter, Bushes, Obama with the end game of being led by an autopen, the vote was for “not that.”
And to quote my Dad, “How did that work out?”
I agree with LKL. I voted for the Constitution Party Presidential candidate in 2016, not Trump. But then I saw what Trump did in his 1st term, and how the Democrats cheated in 2020, and I became convinced that like it or not, God sometimes allows a very flawed man to gain the reins of power in order to teach the rest of us a desperately needed lesson.
King David was a womanizer, an adulterer, and a murderer, yet he was a man after God’s own heart.
Trump has been a womanizer, an adulterer, and, while no murderer, a narcissistic egomaniac. Yet here he is, the most pro-life President ever (his executive order IVF being the sole exception), the man who (a) jailed a narco-terrorist Hispanic dictator, (b) bombed into hades a Musloid Ayatollah and his mad mullahs, and is (c) evicting Latino drug lord gangsters and Islamic terrorists from our nation. And to top it all off, from my little world of nuclear energy, he’s (d) the first President ever to order reform of the US NRC, ending regulatory strangulation of abundant clean energy for all Americans (See EO 14300). Yes, I voted for all that in 2024.
Hey Prevost over there in the Vatican, and Jorge the Heretic wherever you are in the great beyond, feast your eyes on what God can do with a flawed and very imperfect man and what He doesn’t with you Pharisaical self-righteous, virtue-signalling, weak-kneed, cowardly, effeminate clerics.
Don’t know what to make of this age. Just anxious about a half-dozen different things.
And while he was at it, appointed justices to overturn Roe. Yeah, would not have believed it.
The is a new film out about King David. Serves as a reminder that the Almighty often used flawed people to achieve higher objectives.
Yes, the Persian ruler Cyrus was the pagan ‘king’ who defeated the Babylonians in around 580 BC and allowed the Israelites to return to Jerusalem & rebuild the temple.
Now, the Israelites are returning the favor to the Persians..
Correct Don, and it is occurring during Purim!
In 2016 I kind of wanted them to make a remake of Back to the Future. The fact that the present was now the future of the first movie was attractive, but what was even better was that they could reuse the Ronald Reagan joke. That joke only works if someone 30 years ago both knows who the future president is and would have trouble believing he would be president. For Trump both conditions were met, but the same is not true for any president in between him and Reagan.
Of course, they never would have made a good version in 2016 anyway, and instead of a cute joke about Trump it would have been expanded into a rant about how bad orange man is. There is also the issue that there is far less difference between 2016 and 1986 than there was between 1985 and 1955, so the premise wouldn’t land as well.
That was funny and a great example of Trump’s sense of humor. That said, as for the quality of his singing, I would think even the most hardcore leftist would agree that he “shouldn’t give up his day job”.