by PAUL COLLITS – AFTER two assassination attempts many people regarded Donald Trump’s arrival again at the Big House as a miracle.
It was seen as God’s intent to save America – and perhaps the world – from the ravages of post-Christian, relativist, tyrannical rule by the elites. Godless rule.
- The Creator – famously or notoriously – chooses unexpected and poorly equipped types.
- Is Donald J Trump one of these odd divine choices?
- Evidence of this is gathering apace.
The Creator – famously or notoriously – chooses unexpected and poorly equipped types to do His work. See the Twelve Apostles – and Pope Francis.
Is Donald J Trump one of these odd divine choices? Evidence of this is gathering apace.
BUDDY
There is, without any doubt, a Trump effect both stateside and abroad. Three cases in point.
Justin Castro Trudeau’s departure as Canadian PM. Zuckerberg’s epiphany on Facebook fact checkers. And the global learning, via Trump’s unexpected buddy Elon Musk, of Britain’s ugliest “secret” in plain sight – the mass rape of young white British girls by Islamic immigrants.
Trump’s pre-inauguration revolution has shaken trees everywhere. And he’s not even out of the blocks. The key to his impact is perceived “intent”.
They are scared shitless.
The Trump resistance movement is still talking indictments, sentencing and the next round of impeachments.
Trump’s enemies haven’t given up yet. People like this see Trump as the devil (or literally Hitler). Others see him as a saviour.
There is very little in the middle in these discussions about Trump.
Many speak openly now of the end times. They see modern politics as a battle between good and evil.
They see the devil’s work in the strategic slaughter of the unborn, in the COVID plandemic tyranny, in the globalist destruction of human rights, in the depopulation agenda and in the godless worship inherent in climate catastrophism.
Back to the shooting in Butler PA, the more frightening of the two kill-attempts on President 45/47.
Was Trump’s escape a “miracle”? Miracles are around at the minute. My daughter’s second survival (so far) against incredible health odds is close to home.
As was the police finding our stolen car keys – guess where? In a stolen car! – following a Townsville juvenile gang break-in early on New Year’s Day.
Trump himself, not noted for any religious conviction, certainly appears to believe that God saved him from certain death.
British radio host Paul Joseph Watson noted in July: “In his first interview since the attempt on his life, Donald Trump told The New York Post that it is a ‘miracle’ he is still alive, repeatedly stating ‘I’m supposed to be dead’.”
BULLETPROOF
American author Jack Posobiec co-wrote a book on the Trump assassination attempt, called Bulletproof: How a Shot Meant for Donald Trump Took Out Joe Biden (2024).
Posobiec believes in miracles and he believes that Trump’s survival (so far) is one of them.
Considering the odds against Trump even winning the election were longish, given the electoral system and the political enemies ranged against him, 11/5 might well be regarded as miraculous, too.
Trump is now being knocked over in the rush by sworn or unsworn enemies to be his friend. While no miracle, no one would have expected this. The Leftie suck-holes sense a cultural moment.
Democrat Senator John Fetterman, for one, is accepting of the new political environment, of working with the Trump Administration and even voting to confirm some of Trump’s Cabinet picks.
A minor miracle, perhaps, in the age of turbo-charged partisanship. The cracks are appearing.
More broadly, Trump’s victory is, arguably, empowering many in other jurisdictions to be bold. There is a sense of an alt-Right wave.
France and Germany are typically woke and generally ungovernable, but in each country there is serious rumbling on the Right (National Rally and AfD respectively), with prospects of power or, at least, of power sharing.
There is Giorgia Meloni, seemingly Elon’s special friend, in Italy. Hungary remains firmly conservative, and most importantly, is culturally conservative. (Just look at all those Roger Scruton cafes there, one of which I recently visited).
POWER
There is Javier Milei in Argentina. There is Farage in Britain, despite his current difficulties and the long odds against his gaining power.
There might even be Peter Dutton in Australia.
Leaders all over the place now feel they have permission to say out loud what vast swathes of people have been thinking for years.
Then there are all the voices outside the Party systems, now with chests out, chugging away in the alt-media with renewed vigour and fresh fight.
Jeffrey Tucker at The Brownstone Institute now has “hope”. This is a thing.
Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg, of all people, senses the cultural moment. The wind is now blowing the fact checkers into disrepute, it seems – and out of the building.
Zuckerberg is having a little reset of his own. If he means it. Look at all those Big-Tech types making beelines to Mar-a-Lago and giving millions towards the Trump inauguration. It is all too much to be a coincidence.
Trump is giving people hope – and renewed faith in the political process, too – and showing them that they can still give the polity a jolly good tweak when they put their minds to it. And their votes.
But, Trump might be seen more as reflecting this moment, and not driving it. Maybe there is a bit of both going on here.
With his inspired choice of JD Vance as running mate, Trump revealed not just great political judgement but, more importantly, his own sense of the cultural moment.
Vance is not only a “Christian, husband, father”, a MAGA champion and a man of struggle-street people, but he is a deep thinker.
DEMORILISED
Vance sees a demoralised people, weighed down by forces over which they feel less and less control. He sees communities outside the beltway ignored by politicians who have been corrupted by power and ideology and who have outsourced policy to corporates both in the USA and abroad.
He sees evil everywhere in governance.
And he sees a nation that just might be made great again, thanks in no small measure to Donald Trump, a lightning rod for emancipation.
Now, those of us who scarcely see or dare to hope for any way back – such has been the damage done by elites to our traditions and norm – will surely begin to believe in miracles if the MAGA team is able to set in place the pathways to normalcy and advance.
It was the late US journalist Andrew Breitbart who popularised the phrase that culture is upstream from politics.
Indeed, it is, and now, at least in some jurisdictions, the two are running parallel.
We all watch on, many of us with more than a little political re-enchantment underway. Wonderment, even.
Credit where it is due. But is it to Trump? Or God?PC
