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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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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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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We have the power, but do we have the will to stop playing games and fight back? Total victory is not simply one alternative out of many. We face an implacable, wicked, totalitarian foe whose creed, as horrific as Nazism, proclaims that acceptance of Islam is the only path a man or a nation can take.
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Bill, now raspy-voiced, gray-headed, and red-nosed, but still the same roué America knows and loves, reminisced about the young girl, who, believe it or not, was Hillary, that he followed out of class years before and almost touched (certainly not a first for Bill) before launching into a celebration of her accomplishments.
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So many of the men and women framing political discussion nowadays are the progeny—or the progeny of the progeny—of leftist professors of the sixties. They yearn for those political salad days….
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