Donald Trump’s Presidency and False Prophecy
Immediately after the election Trump famously claimed that his voters were undercounted by 3,000,000 votes, the number that matched Hilary Clinton’s superiority in the popular count over Trump. This was a wild, narcissist stab, and grievous injustice to the integrity of the many Secretaries of State who ensured a clean election. In my state, Georgia, the Republican Secretary of State only found a dozen or so false or inaccurate votes out of the millions cast. Trump should have been reproved for this narcissist invention immediately by his Christian supporters.
One last comment would relate to the failure of the Republicans to bring forth a reasonable health coverage issue. Here again I feel there is some outright sin involved.[29] Many Republicans enjoyed mocking the Obama Affordable Care Act as “Obama Care” and something out of hell. Indeed, it was a flawed bill, but it extended coverage to millions, and could have been the basis of a reformed health care bill. Jeering dismissal by Republicans and Trump make rational discourse and compromise with the Democrats practically impossible. Again I invite Republicans who participated in this awful name-calling to consult their conscience in prayer and repent. The Affordable Care Act was very imperfect, but it brought millions health care coverage. The Republicans did zero, and ultimately must bear much of the blame for the thousands of Americans who are dying every year from lack of health care, and making us the laughing stock of the rest of the developed world.
I want to make clear that I do believe that some of the things that Trump has accomplished have been good and long overdue, such as his challenge to the unequal trade relationship with China and a revision of NAFTA. But even his accomplishments could have been achieved with less narcissist attachments. I do not intend to go further with a litany of Trumps political atrocities that have so harmed the civility and political discourse of our Nation. My intention is to appeal to Christians who have become Forever Trumpers that they need to reconsider, and perhaps repent, of their failure to be a Nathan to a very flawed David.
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Notes
[1] Mark Galli, “Why Trump Should be Removed From Office,” Christianity Today (Dec. 19. 2019). https://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2019/december-web-only/trump-should-be-removed-from-office.html
[2] Even in his inaugural address he boasted that by his becoming President that gang crime would stop “[T]he crime and gangs and drugs that have stolen too many lives and robbed our country of so much unrealized potential. This American carnage stops right here and stops right now.” No noticeable change on this since he took office. https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/the-inaugural-address/
[3] As a Vietnam veteran I was appalled that even before he became President he attacked Senator McCain by implying he was less that a hero by being captured. That view is ignorant and hurtful, as pilots who eject from a stricken aircraft and land in hostile territory have no choice but to surrender. McCain broke his legs on landing, but proved unusual courage in the years of his confinement.
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