Rev. Trump is waving his pretend Christianity around quite a lot these days to appeal to folks like Sen. Hawley who lately announced that he is a “Christian nationalist.” But Hawley is no more a Christian than Trump, and Trump is on a good day only a cheap Hallmark Christian. People who care are going to have to speak out against feigning Christianity in the political sphere and against fake Christianity.
25 VII 2024: Bibi and Trumpi
Netanyahu and Trump are practically twins. They would be, except for the fact that Trump has not yet committed genocide.
22 VII 2024: Investigation. What fun!
Republicans, especially in the House, have dropped everything so they won’t be left out of a grand investigation of the attempt on the life of Trump. I know that they have to distract themselves with melodrama since they do no real work, but this is going to get well out of hand. These days, Americans can’t get enough of anger. Whatever happens must be someone’s fault and it must be investigated, that is to say, theatrical Republicans and right-wing mouths get to act out furious and deeply concerned. Ten members of the house wandering around on the roof whence the shooter got a bead on Trump! A demonstration of earnestness and concern and maybe a photo-op. Nancy Mace gets to make the news by using coarse language while brow-beating the Director of the Secret Service, whoopee! Speaker Johnson is planning a select bipartisan committee to investigate what we already know everything about. The attempted assassination of Trump will be more investigated that the assassination of Lincoln.
16 VII 2024: Trump is still Trump
It needn’t be said, but I will say it anyway. Trump’s having been nearly killed by a crazy kid does not change the fact that Trump is a compulsive liar, compulsive swindler, compulsive sexual predator, and compulsive semi-criminal. If some people want to celebrate and thank the Lord for Trump’s deliverance from peril, let them do it, but it will not make them any the wiser nor Trump any the less revolting.
15 VII 2024: Aileen delivers!
Judge Aileen Cannon is a good little girl and always does what the grownups tell her. She can take her place with Thomas and Alito and her fellow Trump appointees on the Supreme Court, all of them obedient to the people who put them where they are, all traitors to jurisprudence.
12 VII 2024: Public Duty
From the Ninth Letter once ascribed to Plato:
And when our country itself calls us to public duties, it would surely be improper not to listen to the call; for failure to do so will involve the additional consequence of leaving room to worthless men who engage in public affairs from motives that are by no means the best.
11 VII 2024: If it quacks like a Klux …
Our Senator Josh Hawley gave a virtuoso performance in demagoguery recently in a speech in which he professed that he is a “Christian Nationalist.” I don’t know what to think of this. If most people made such a declaration, I am inclined to accept their self-description, even though Christian Nationalism is an oxymoron. But Hawley is not most people.
Does he really believe in Christian Nationalism? He might, though if he does he is a hell of a waste of a Stanford-Yale education. But when I recall that Hawley is running for re-election, and is running in the State of Missouri, I think his “Christian Nationalism” is a cynical appeal to the Christian barbarism that is dominant here. Even so, if he walks (runs) like a member of the Ku Klux Klan, if he quacks like a member of the Ku Klux Klan, then maybe he is a member of the Ku Klux Klan.
9 VII 2024: Divine vengeance?
Trump keeps boasting that he will get back at his critics. But it’s not revenge, he says, it’s “retribution,” which, of course, is the same as “payback.” No longer content to be dictator, Trump is rising up above the rank of King, and wants to be a god. Romans 12:19 “Mihi vindicta: ego retribuam dicit Dominus, that is “Vengeance belongs to me; I will do the payback, says the Lord.”
8 VI 2024: Cognitive tests? No, drug tests!
I saw today a headline “Lindsey Graham: Anybody who could be president should undergo cognitive tests.” I suppose this might be a good idea. Why not? But I think it more important, for the time being, that candidates undergo drug testing. Trump is said to be have Aderall coming out of his ears, and who knows what other psychotropic drugs his physicians and handlers are mixing into his narcotic cocktail. Donald Trump is insane, and is made to appear functional by makeup, lies, and meds.
4 VI 2024: The final Fourth?
Again we celebrate the anniversary of our Country’s freeing itself from monarchical tyranny. I wonder if we will celebrate this feast of freedom again. Trump is in the process of claiming dictatorial power, and the forces arrayed behind him are awesome. White supremacists, Christian supremacists, male supremacists, money supremacists are all there, as are all the shifty, shady, and cowardly figures in American politics. The Heritage Foundation, the premier fascist think-tank, is anticipating Trump’s electoral victory by drawing up their Project 2025, a book of instructions for how to get rid of democracy. The hordes of WASPs, evangelicals, right-wing Catholics, anti-intellectuals, et al., who, left behind by the passage of time, feel that they have been somehow disrespected, are flexing their hatreds as they look ahead to Trump’s new monarchy.
The end of the American Republic will lead to the end of the United States, for victory will lead the forces of reaction to turn and rend one another, leading to secessions all around. We celebrate that the founders set aside their regional and political differences, but though set aside, these differences and animosities have not gone away, and a new Trump regime will show how much they are still with us.