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Apparently President Trump has brought back Columbus Day, much to the chagrin of the Left. I've written about the assault on Columbus Day many times. It represents the rampant presentism that defines the Left's approach to history. It often rests heavily on our modern pick and choose approach to facts and reality. Its replacement rests on that multi-cultural deifying of any civilization not west of the Urals. And it certainly shows that side of out country that wants our country burned to the ground. Since obviously, as President Trump said a decade ago, it didn't stop with Columbus or Robert E. Lee.
Nonetheless, it will be a short-lived victory. The minute - the second - the Democrats get a president in the Oval Office it will be stricken just the same. As will many things President Trump has done in such a manner. The problems are deeply rooted. It's been said we're in a Cold Civil War. That is likely true, though it has been getting hot in recent years.
Of course take the win while we can. We've never stopped referring to Columbus Day in our home, and despite having a significant line of American Indian in us, never bought into the indigenous people worship endorsed by the Left (and, sadly, no small part of the modern Church). We even still give the day off from school to our youngest. But again, a short lived victory no doubt, unless things take a radical turn from where the Left would have them go.
I hope we are all praying for the president and his administration. I know I am in the same way I was praying for Biden: for the president's conversion and good governance, for the good to be magnified and opposition to the good be converted as well or thwarted. I am cautiously optimistic about some trends being stymied or reversed, but as our hope does not rest on princes, I'm not putting down the weapons of spiritual warfare either. This is ultimately a spiritual battle, but I am glad we finally have some leaders willing to take slings and arrows in the pursuit of some cultural restoration. This is actually where I kind of thumb my nose a bit at Never Trumpers. I'm very happy for them they can keep their sensibilities and consciences clear from the stain of pragmatic politics, but at some point, one has to ask...who else would have been able and willing to take a battering ram to Leftists and Leftism in the same way Trump has for the same cost? He deserves a modicum of respect for that as well as our fervent prayers in support of any actual good his administration is doing, that it may succeed.
ReplyDeleteTrump is, in many ways, a political version of Rush Limbaugh. At a time when most of American society, especially across the media spectrums, left of center, Limbaugh came in like a battering ram - and exposed staggering levels of mendacity and hypocrisy among those who had enjoyed that monopoly until then. Trump is the same, but by legislation - for good or ill. But I agree that this is a spiritual battle, because the attacks on the West are also attacks on the Faith, the Church, God Himself. Convincing people that anything connected to the West and Christianity has to go is merely a step toward saying Christianity and its Gospel has to go. Something those Christians who support this sort of thing seem to miss - or at least I assume they miss.
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