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Gospel Truth? Or Heresy?
To get reelected Trump had to win one war: He had to beat Joe Biden with Independents. He failed. But, as we hear Trumpsters say every day, most Republicans are still blindly loyal to Trump. Gospel truth? Or heresy? Forty-four years ago when I managed Ronald Reagan’s first Presidential campaign in North Carolina we fought…
Read MoreLyin’ Eyes
When I was ten years old walking along a muddy dirt road beside a wide creek at the foot of a hill I glanced down, saw a black tree branch lying in a patch of sunlight in the mud – behind me my gray-haired uncle said, Stop. A snake reared up in the air in…
Read MoreShaky Ground
President Trump’s spokesman, Jason Miller, declared to Fox News, “Trump effectively is the Republican party.” Years ago conservatives, like Ronald Reagan, rebuilt the Republican party based on conservative principles that reflected the gospels they believed in. That led to battles between Republicans and Democrats on issues. Many of those conservative issues were weapons in Trump’s…
Read MoreA Mirror: Two Thousand Years Ago
Locked in his prison cell in Rome Saint Paul wrote Timothy: In the last days…men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, proud, arrogant, slanderers, swollen with conceit, lovers of pleasure… Lying in bed the other night reading that I thought, The end times may be closer than I thought. But it turned out…
Read MoreThe Blessed Silence
I remember a thin, tall, blonde boy, back in high school, who’d set his tray on the table in the cafeteria, start talking – and he couldn’t stop; mocking a girl’s dress, a football player’s stammer, a math teacher’s hairdo he’d talk on and on. Trump likes to talk too. Morning, noon and night he’s…
Read MoreElection Nights
In the old days, when we all voted on election day, election nights had a kind of normalcy – votes trickled in, then rolled in, but huge puzzling swings were rare. Then early voting started and unexpected swings began to happen on election nights. For some reason Democrats like voting early while Republicans prefer walking…
Read MoreLooking Back at Georgia
Our nightmare came true. Democrats won the Senate. According to the exit polls more Republicans voted in Georgia than Democrats (Republicans: 38%, Democrats 34%) – which meant if the two Republican candidates each got 50% of the Independent vote, they’d each win by four points. They lost Independents 57-43%. Why? Most people walking around on…
Read MoreTelling Republicans He Won…
President Trump said he won Pennsylvania – but three Republican federal Circuit Court Judges ruled his Pennsylvania lawsuit had “no merit.” Trump appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court – it told him no. Republican judges in Georgia and Wisconsin said no to pro-Trump lawsuits. Trump turned to the Republican Governors in Arizona and Georgia to…
Read MoreNo More Kowtowing
Trump tweeted “Ted Cruz didn’t win Iowa, he stole it”…four years later he tweeted Biden stole the election – Rudy Giuliani told us vote stealing computers turned millions of ballots cast for Trump into votes for Biden. Fox howled, CNN howled, brawls broke out on Social Media, tweets spread howls like infections; turning against Tucker…
Read MoreWhat Happens Next?
Glaring at a President, thinking, I don’t like you but, at least, you’re not lying to me…that’s a pillar (of democracy) called the Public Trust. Nixon breached the Trust, had to resign. Now Biden lies, Trump lies…but one will be President. If the pillar vanishes… What happens next?
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