During the 2016 presidential campaign, Donald Trump was much criticized—no, castigated—for suggesting (certainly with his usual hyperbole) a ban on Muslim immigration to the United States. It’s an extreme measure, to be sure, but isn’t it about time we in the West realized these are extreme times?
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There’s a grand history of political philosophy behind the wishes of the Brexit and Trump voters, something simple anger cannot explain. It’s a philosophy that Edmund Burke found in the “little platoons,” men and women in real communities who wish to live their lives dedicated to preserving a past inherited from their fathers as part of the future they hope to bequeath to their children.
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Garrison Keiller wrote, “Raw ego and proud illiteracy have won out . . . [Trumpers] wanted only to whoop and yell, boo at the H-word, wear profane T-shirts, maybe grab a crotch or two, jump in the RV with a couple of six-packs and go out and shoot some spotted owls.”
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However, Trump really is president, and most of us can do little more than hope and pray that he will out-perform all expectations great and small. Everyone will have his Trumpian Christmas list, and here is mine.
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A Trump presidency promises gaffe after gaffe with a generous dollop or two of old-fashioned cronyism. A Hillary presidency guarantees bloating on the grand scale of the Federal government, especially of its new governmental branch, the Clinton Foundation.
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Disgrace and foolishness are Trump’s middle names; they stem from a defective soul and a dearth of identifiable principle. The lesser of two evils? Maybe, just barely. But evil is evil. As Christians, conservatives, and men of good will, we should never feel obliged or called to endorse it. Endure it, yes, when we must. Let’s do so with a clear conscience.
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Ann Coulter proclaimed that Trump won the debate “by proving he wasn’t Hitler.”
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It is, therefore, both sad and amusing to hear the least dramatically lame and morally bankrupt politicians of our own day being praised for their oratorical greatness, their consummate skill in manipulating language publicly. Barrack Obama?
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Where are the #NeverHillary Democrats? The question answers itself. Across the land Democrats admit openly enough—well, if polls mean anything—to Hillary’s unsavory character, he utter mendacity, her swinish (yes, swinish) love of wealth, her arrogant manner.
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Nothing I’ve said can be construed as a recommendation of the new Ben-Hur, but I won’t say it is devoid of entertainment. I’m tempted to rank it as a guilty pleasure, but my appetite for guilt will have to increase before I watch it again.
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