2015: Donald Trump announces for president. Donald T? Really? All I knew of him was what I saw on the unavoidable tabloid front pages at the supermarket checkout. And it wasn’t admirable. Then two people whose viewpoints I cherish told me Trump is great!
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I’d never gone to a candidate rally before! At the convention center. Trump speaks of the love in the room! I feel it too! The tide is turning, the restoration of God-based values is on its way! Got the MAGA hats, the Trump flag! The county Republicans gave me a rhinestone Trump pin for volunteering. Better not wear it openly, but still fun!
The sarcasm, the ranking down, no problem for this outer borough kid. But wait, I didn’t like his insult to Carly Fiorina: not okay, unmanly, sexist. Overlook it for now!
Amazing first term! Amazing accomplishments! Economic boom! Made America energy independent! Dumped DEI and rebuilt the military! Closed the border! Scads of originalist federal judges! Pro-life, brought Christmas out of the closet! Wow! Moved the embassy to Jerusalem … Joanie’s right, he’s doing God’s work!
Everything he did was under contemptible impeachments and Soviet-style persecution. A bigger wow!
COVID hits. Nobody, including Trump, fully understands what’s happening. Warp speed for ventilators, which turned out to be part of the problem. Trump fights to keep houses of worship open. Yay! Doing everything he knows to do! Trump to this day protects the Mengelian Fauci, not okay!
October 7, 2023. Unspeakable predictable incomparable evil. Of all the “faiths,” only one, just one, is the war cry of barbarity and death across the world. Unfathomable.
Trump sends a massive emergency shipment of arms and air defense to Israel. Thank God! Does Trump’s deal for quasi-peace in Gaza have a bit too much of his Arab bromance in it? Bad! He signals Israel can “finish the job” regarding Hamas. Good!
The lead-up to the most righteous war of my lifetime. Trump vows that the U.S. will intervene if Iran kills peaceful protesters as economic unrest spreads. “We are locked and loaded and ready to go,” the president posted on Truth Social. So proud of Trump!
Operation Epic Fury. Good vs. evil, truth vs. lies, courage vs. cruelty and cowardice. The American military performs magnificently. Amazing rescues, fantastic destruction of nuclear sites. My entire adult life has seen the lurking gray shadows of Islamic Iran. Great moment!
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Suddenly, something strange. Trump spins on a dime, stops talking about Iran’s crimes against humanity and starts campaigning against Obama’s Iran nuclear deal of 2015. What?? Why does good versus evil need a deal? Especially when the good side has an overwhelming military advantage? Why didn’t Trump say “Epic Fury is completed, but if Iran messes with the Strait of Hormuz or continues nuclear weapons activity, there will be more of the same and worse…”? Startled. Confused.
Worst of all, Trump is offering to enrich the monstrous IRGC by $300 billion. Why? Appalling.
Trump suddenly seems to be accommodating the slaughter of tens of thousands of Iranian civilians? Is he sending the message to Islamics across the world that the U.S. tolerates mass murder committed in their name of God? Do we? Frightened.
Is this Trump’s first deal at the level of good and evil? Can he operate at that level? Does the end of protecting the next election justify the means of stabilizing and enriching the IRGC? I see both sides. Uncertain.
It’s getting worse. The vice president of the United States doesn’t seem to fully understand the scope of the matter. A Hezb’Allah denialist, twisting words to blame Israel for defending herself. Why? It’s easier to turn away from real evil. Degrading Israel provides a facade of rebellious independence, while it is in truth the ingratitude and hypocrisy of rejecting the moral foundation upon which Christianity and America depends.
Deal with Iran? Ludicrous. A piece of paper to eradicate Iran’s permanent, all-consuming determination to have nuclear weapons? Every deal has sustained those dire ambitions. Let Vance be tarred by history with the humiliation and defeat of this moment. Deep sadness. Wait. Vance’s duplicity will help Big Little Marco! Fantastico!
Pull yourself together! Victor Davis Hanson explains, “People have No Clue How Genius Trump is…” I’m listening to the Green Prince, he’s looking sharp in new threads and hairdo. He almost smiles. JNS reports this: ‘Green Prince’ blasts Trump’s role in Iran War. “We could have finished the job, you stopped!” Sylvan Adams confidently says Iran can’t handle Trump, and Iran isn’t ready for what Trump is going to do. Douglas Murray frets How Trump fell into the Iranian Trap. Bill O’Reilly proclaims Trump is a genius!
And this is the half of America that doesn’t think he’s Satan!
Wait! Headspinning, now Trump is bombing Iran.
My only hope is that the president is granted wisdom, and the Middle East will be reborn in new forms of tolerance and peace.
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