I am reading the latest by Victor Davis Hanson, The Case for Trump. He is trying to look at the reasons why Trump won the election and at the point I am now he is looking at his chances of success. It is definitely not a white-wash. The real Donald Trump emerges but it is written with an understanding that he is doing the things that those of us without power want to have done.
It is a good read but depressing. It is depressing because he goes into great depth in what has been going on in what is being called the Deep State. He has a long discourse on the large number of people who are deeply planted in the unelected arms of our government who think that they know what is best for the country and feel it is their responsibility to force the rest of us to conform. They are committed to making the country go the “right” way regardless of how elections go.
Davis points out that this is a problem with government that goes back as far as history. These elites tend to be almost impossible to dig out because they have not ethical restraints. They consider themselves the true leaders. They think of themselves as wise parent figures dealing with immature and spoiled children. They think we need them. This reminded me of how I have been living in a bubble of history.
Where else in history has a normal person been able to live in the security, prosperity and comfort that we know today? I was raised having no fear of the police or men in uniform. They were there to serve and protect. It said so right there on the door of their car. And because the government was still relatively small, it worked. When I was a child there was no concern about a SWAT team from the Department of Agriculture busting down my door and charging in with guns blazing only to find that they had the wrong address.
I was raised in a miracle historically. My concern is that my grandchildren will look at me and wonder what kind of fairy tales I am telling them. We home schooled our children. We lived in the awareness that the social workers and police might break into our house at any time. It happened in the city in which we lived. We did not register with the state. You can’t get away with that any more because the government now requires every newborn to have a Social Security Number.
The times are a changing. What is not changing is my real confidence is in the God of history. My prayer is that He will use Donald Trump as a tool to move this country back to what it once was and could be again. I guess that is what MAGA means to me.
Hanson, Victor Davis. The Case for Trump. New York: Basic Books, 2019.
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