I see danger, but my intuition says this will not be the time -- and that the manner in which our country rebounds or doesn't rebound from this will determine whether the next such event is successful.
I would have had more confidence in Trump had he not gone the wrong way with Wuhan Flu. Perhaps his Achilles heel is his inability to admit when he's wrong. Instead he just doubles down -- a good tactic when you're right, but it sure isn't in the case of claiming contrary to evidence that the Swedes are suffering from having followed the herd immunity path.
I woke up today with a sense that I need to elaborate on what I wrote (above) last night.
When I refer to
rebounding, I think the most essential aspect of a proper rebounding effect will be the manner in which our country deals with the people
behind the riots. Yes, it will be reflective of the general will of our leaders what they do in response to the calls for so-called racial justice, but given that blacks currently worked up over this false issue are simply pawns of the strategists behind this fiasco (just as those whites currently worked up thinking we have to do something about quelling the violent blacks are pawns in their own right), what really matters is how much ground our leaders are willing to cede to the actual agenda of organizations like Antifa, Black Lives Matter and others of their ilk (not to mention their major funders). None of this started this month or even this year or the decade that 2020 will be the capstone to.
If he follows through on it, Trump's assertion that "Antifa and other like-minded groups" (and if they leave off Black Lives Matter we'll have a clue about how serious they are about it) are to be designated as domestic terror organizations could represent the best evidence yet of Donald Trump's brilliance. Follow the money. Without the vast amount of cash behind those groups, most of which will dry up if criminal penalties are associated with funding them (because left-wing politicians, the Hollywood elite and other limousine liberals are at their core cowards with no real foundational principles other than approval-and-power lust -- and folks like George Soros don't want to be incarcerated), the vast number of namby-pamby grad-students-living-in-their-upper-middle-class-parents-basement spoiled brats will ask for more hours at Starbucks to replace their supposed commitment to bringing about the destruction of Western Civilization. This, though, is a watershed moment in our nation's history. Being cavalier about what is happening will ensure its full implementation either the next time around or shortly thereafter. As I mentioned above in response to
@rockfox, I no longer have much faith that even the 2nd Amendment crowd will generally resist if our military sides with the anarchists, given that I live in a serious NRA stronghold in rural northwestern Pennsylvania, and this area has been highly characterized by generalized obedience to a dictatorial Commonwealth governor.
I also want to add that I would be remiss if I ever gave the impression that I'm in any danger of abandoning Trump as our current leader. I shudder thinking about how different today would be if Hillary Clinton (or just about any current Democrat leader) were in charge, and I have almost no faith that most any other of the 2016 Republican challengers to Trump would have ended up being significantly different from the Clintons or the Obamas or pick your member of The Squad (if I believed in Hell, I would also believe that there has to be a special place reserved there for Lindsay Graham in particular, who always manages to puff up his chest as he's far-too-consistently-for-coincidence ensuring that no one will ever be held accountable for their treason).
Trump has made mistakes, but in the scheme of things the only significant one has been his handling of Wuhan Flu. Most of the complaints people have about Trump I instead label as strengths (most especially the facts that (a) he is rude and crude and (b) his unstatesmanlike use of Twitter -- we would know
nothing if Trump weren't a master at getting attention in that manner); his lack of gentility is one of his most effective traits, and our country has been
begging for someone to stop worrying about whether the soulless, ruthless, amoral Democrats consider Republican behavior righteous enough for Republican voters. This is a culture war, and Republicans have been letting people who would strip the skin off their backs hypnotize them into going wobbly over such irrelevant matters as sexual indiscretions or offensive language. In competition or war, I want on my side people who will do what it takes to win. I don't want them to abandon all principles -- even when our opponents do so by promoting winning by all means necessary or that the ends justify the means -- but I do want them to be willing to set aside good manners if that's what it takes, so I'm likely going to support Trump no matter what he does -- because I have no use for Sensitive New Age Guys in positions of power: those are the type of individuals who become overly-authoritarian when given the opportunity; witness what I'm saying on the part of many Democrat governors in the face of Wuhan Flu and senseless rioting.
So I hope Trump will follow through on first designating Antifa and Black Lives Matter as domestic terror organizations -- and then crack down hard on their behavior and their financial streams. In order to do that, though, he is going to have to set aside the wasted motivation to increase the black vote in November. In fact, I'm absolutely certain that, the more he cracks down on Black Lives Matter, the higher the percentage will be of blacks who vote for him. Black Americans, after all, are the ones who have the most to lose if Black Lives Matter gets its way.
This is no time, either, for bandaids. This is no time for appeasement or just kicking the can down the road. To fail to holistically dismantle the treason that is at the core of what we're witnessing will be to ensure that it will be fully implemented by the end of the first term of the next Democrat elected to the presidency.
I steadfastly maintain my belief that our God is Sovereign and that that implies that everything that is happening is according to His Plan -- even the work of the Adversary. What that doesn't account for is to what extent it is God's Plan that the current situation is Designed to inspire us to help ourselves. If nothing else, He has presented us with a tremendous opportunity for significant learning. I don't pretend to know what His Purposes are in this moment, but I don't doubt that it involves a tremendous lesson, the need for which we as humanity most certainly have brought upon ourselves.
I will continue to pray for strength for Donald Trump and a profound soul-shaking spiritual conversion for George Soros.
