Post-election thoughts.
This will sound crazy, but I'm really not upset about the election or Trump's triumph. Somewhat bewildered, to be sure - but using one of Obama's favorite aphorisms, 'it is what it is'. Nothing I can do about it. I'm one of those who never forgot January 6th - I watched it happen - live. I also consider Trump to be a conman and Carpetbagger businessman who consorts with enemy governments and maybe even shares National Security information with 'friendly' dictators. In other words, I voted against him out of concern for the Constitution, the rule of law/judicial system, and support of NATO. Now the majority has spoken, Trump is POTUS and I accept that. It is what it is.
I believe it is mistaken to have called Trump a Nazi or a Hitler - or even a Fascist. Perhaps those around him know what that means and can be identified as such, but Trump isn't an ideologue. I think Trump could easily go the dictator route - that's how he ran his business. Ironically, some of his supporters claim to be open to that - so I do see some parallels to the German/Italian political scene in the 1930's. (Ironically because, Catholics among them - who accuse the Pope of being a dictator, are on board.) That said, I think absolute monarch would be his choice, if he wished - but I think he'll stick to POTUS.
We will know soon enough what he is if he goes through with the purges he has suggested, taking vengeance on those who betrayed him and how he plays along with Putin. In the meantime, the court cases will be thrown out, DOJ will drop charges, he will be pardoned by himself if needed, January 6 convicts will be pardoned and after all of that, we have a chance at a new normal.
I think Harris lost it with her support for trans issues in prisons, unlimited abortion, gay/drags/SS marriage and that one interview on the View, when she said she couldn't think of anything she'd do differently from Biden. Ordinary people are sick of woke. Ordinary people are feeling the pinch of inflation. So they voted for Trump. They consider him as the one who will save the United States, chosen by God. Indeed, after so many Rosary novenas, it does seem so.
God alone is God, Jesus Christ is our only salvation - here we have no lasting city.
Putting on my Bayside/Fatima Blue Beret, I'll tell what I think Trump and the MAGA regime might be. Trump may be an instrument of chastisement.* If he cancels woke projects, regulates health and human services, women's reproductive rights and so on, that's going to hurt. Since Roe v Wade we've been a rather permissive, even debauched society - not that anything's wrong with that - to steal a phrase from Seinfeld. Yet when freedoms are selectively limited, people are going to feel the pain - all of us are going to feel 'chastised'.
If Trump's bromance with Putin grows stronger, chances are it is going to be worse.
Having said that, even if all of that comes true, we have to realize people have come through it in the past and elsewhere in our own day. I think of JPII and Benedict XVI growing up under Nazism, then JPII under Communism.
“All are punished” - Romeo & Juliet, Act 5, Scene 3
*And let us not say that it is God who is punishing us in this way; on the contrary it is people themselves who are preparing their own punishment. In his kindness God warns us and calls us to the right path, while respecting the freedom he has given us; hence people are responsible”. - Sr. Lucia of Fatima
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