TRUMP 2.0

Excerpted from my SOCIALISM: My Part in its Downfall. See, eg, Amazon AU for a copy: SOCIALISM: My Part in its Downfall : McKinlay, Neil Cullan: Amazon.com.au: Books

Trump 2.0

The Gospel sets us free. And we must stand firm in that freedom. “Stand fast therefore in the liberty by which Christ has made us free, and do not be entangled again with a yoke of bondage’ (Galatians 5:1).

At its founding, the USA got the Gospel right, and God blessed America. To be sure, the founders ought to have mentioned Jesus in their 1776 Declaration of Independence and their 1789 Constitution. But the “Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness” line stirs complacent and even recalcitrant hearts to take notice.

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Could you imagine what it would be like to leave a country where there is no freedom of speech? We take all the freedom we have for granted. Well, some countries shoot people for complaining about government policy. It must have been great being a refugee from one of these countries, sailing into New York for instance. There’s the Statue of Liberty up ahead. You’re on a boat full of people fleeing the bondage of persecution. Then someone on the boat tells you about this great statue you see growing taller as you grow closer. They quote to you some of the words written on it:

Give me your tired, your poor,

Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,

The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.

Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,

I lift my lamp beside the golden door!

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         Alas! America opened her borders to the world from 2021-2025. Along with those “yearning to breathe free” came sex and child-traffickers, thieves, rapists, murderers, who robbed, raped, pillaged and murdered their way across the USA. Obviously, these were not exercising the freedom that comes from the Gospel but were clearly illustrating by their actions that they were still in bondage to sin. There was an unforgettable scene at the end of the first Planet of the Apes movie. Charleton Heston (who played Moses in The Ten Commandments) is walking along a sandy beach. He sees the neck and shoulders of a great object jutting out of the sand. It’s the Statue of Liberty half-submerged. Enter Donald J. Trump.

            Trump “lost” the 2020 election which took place during the fog and smog of the COVID-19 pandemic. We all went to bed with Trump well in the lead while the vote-counting continued, only rise in the morning to hear about truckloads of postal votes that had swayed the election against him. Mollie Hemmingway wrote a book about this weird event titled, RIGGED How the Media, Big Tech, and the Democrats Seized Our Elections. With eighty-four pages of endnotes, she accurately details how the 2020 US election was rigged. She writes, “This book rose out of a desire to do what the media failed to do: investigate how the election was handled in a year when states, counties, and cities rapidly changed their election procedures with minimal oversight.”[1] Hemmingway also wrote,

            The 2020 election is just the tip of the iceberg. The left’s vehement anti-Trumpism – and willingness to lie, contort reality, and ruin Trump’s supporters to advance its agenda – has undermined half the country’s faith in America’s most vaunted institutions. Restoring that trust will take a gargantuan effort. And regrettably, it does not look like anyone in the political and cultural establishment is willing to do the work required to do so.[2]

Then followed the four years of open borders, multiple fake Trump impeachment trials, from lunatic “Russian Collusion” nonsense to fake rape accusations. Trump spent months attending a New York court defending his good name. This was “lawfare” on steroids! Despite the very pits of hell being arrayed against him, the voters voted in the “too big to rig” 2024 election. The 45^th president became 47^th.

Trump switched from Twitter to his own Truth Social social media outlet. Twitter was bought over by Elon Musk and shifted from being a Leftist propaganda platform to being more of a “free speech” platform. Having learned from his first term as president, this time round, because he could clearly see during the interim four years all those who were the furtive players, from dodgy army generals to backstabbing politicians, Trump was able to drain “the swamp” even more. Because of their ungodly and demonic smear campaigns, the Democrats were confident that Trump had no chance of ever winning again. They thought their trumped-up charges applied by activist judges would ensure that the bad “orange man” would be wearing an orange jumpsuit in some prison. But alas! the forces of neo-Marxism were slowed down if not halted in the USA – for now.

The Democrat Party has been taken hostage by the extreme left of its party. It is no longer the party of JFK. Now it is all about same-sex marriage, transgenderism, and locking up anyone who disagrees with abortion, even late term abortion, state education policies, open borders, illegal immigration, etc. In other words, it demonises and shouts down and tries to shut up and even lock up any who disagree with its politics.

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            Even here in Australia I have personally witnessed what has become known as Trump Derangement Syndrome (TDS). This phrase was initially coined by the late Charles Krauthammer (1950-2018) to refer to vitriolic responses and reactions to George W Bush when he was president. Regarding President Trump, I have witnessed people go into “meltdown” at the mere mention of Trump’s name! They have become something resembling a toxic bubbling and smouldering heap of sulphuric acid such as may happen when a car battery is dropped on concrete.

Not the most reliable go-to source for accurate information, Wikipedia says that “Trump derangement syndrome (TDS) is a pejorative term used to describe negative reactions to U.S. president Donald Trump that are characterized as irrational and disconnected from Trump’s actual policy positions.” Another word for TDS is pure hatred of a man, which, as Wikipedia surprisingly accurately states, is “irrational and disconnected.” Someone needs to write a doctoral dissertation on TDS. TDS is sin! And, as my old theological professor would say, “Often we cannot figure out sin, because sin is irrational.”

Why does the mention of President Trump create such a negative reaction in some people even here in Australia? A lot of this can be traced back and attributed to Saul Alinski’s Rules for Radicals approach of demonising your political opponents, “by calling them names – Racist, fascist, misogynist, Islamophobe, homophobe, transphobe, bigot etc., etc. Thus, like acid being thrown in a person’s face, or turning a blowtorch on him/her, your opponent is inundated and blasted with vitriolic hate and hatred. Make no mistake, to demonize your opponent is to spread hate. We now can see the success of using this method for extending the Socialist’s cause. Exhibit A: TDS.

            One is reminded of Saul who, after his conversion to Christianity, became the Apostle Paul. Speaking of before his conversion, when he used to persecute the Church, we are given a picture of Saul's heart where it says, “Saul, [was] still breathing threats of murder…” (Acts 9:1a). Now, it is argued by some, that because Donald Trump has not understood that the way of salvation is through faith, not of works (Eph. 2:8-9), he cannot possibly be a Christian. That being understood, Scripture says, “Whoever hates his brother is a murderer, and you know that no murderer has eternal life abiding n him” (1 John 3:15). The general principle here is that, just as a man lusting after a woman who is not his wife has committed adultery with her in his heart has broken God’s 7^th Commandment (Matt. 5:28; Exod. 20:14), so hating someone in your heart is breaking the 6^th Commandment (Exod. 20:13; Matt. 5:21-22; Rom. 13:9). Disagreeing with someone’s politics is one thing, but fuelling hatred is another.

Socialism is a worldview. In other words, Socialism is a religion. Some Christians have been fooled into thinking that Socialism is a form of Christianity endorsed by the Bible. Nothing could be farther from the truth! Neo-Marxism is its most militant form of expression. Though Socialism poses as a movement about loving your neighbour, like Islam, it has been exposed as a religion of hate. Trump 2.0 has been used by God to warn Christians to shun it.   

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[1] Mollie Hemingway, RIGGED How the Media, Big Tech, and the Democrats Seized Our Elections, (Regnery, Washington DC, 2021), 333.

[2] Ibid., 330.