I do tend to agree with the lowercase-e¹ evangelical Christians that Trump was chosen by God to lead us. I just think it was in the same way as the Pharoah of the Exodus.
I am hopeful, and it's hard to explain but, well, I have a friend in court-ordered rehab right now. You know how they say before they want to get better, they have to hit rock bottom? Well, we hit rock bottom yesterday. I mean, not for Trump himself, there's no bottom there (except the one he talks out of), and if you go deep enough there are probably Balrogs. But it's hard to deny the fact that the president backed a coup when he backed an invasion into the Capitol building with flags bearing his name and flags of a civil rebellion. Even Wikipedia lists Trump on the [[self-coup]] page. And that happened January 5 -- or one day before this most obvious evidence. And if you were ever a real Republican who believed in law and order, it's hard to say that this is not a really bad look.
If you listened to some of the speeches in the Senate later, there were Republicans making full-throated defenses of Biden's victory, and accusing their colleagues of lying. It's a turning point, at least among the leadership. It may break the Republican Party, or it may break the country altogether, but the mood is definitely not what it was yesterday. It was both ugly and impossible to ignore -- and it might be the excuse people need to cut their habit for good.
¹ A minor note but I'm a member of the Lutheran denomination, which are known as Evangelical Christians in Germany. We had the word first.
Quote:Because some of the people I've known would see that and just go "HELL YEAH!"Those people are all racists, we don't need to listen to them.
I am hopeful, and it's hard to explain but, well, I have a friend in court-ordered rehab right now. You know how they say before they want to get better, they have to hit rock bottom? Well, we hit rock bottom yesterday. I mean, not for Trump himself, there's no bottom there (except the one he talks out of), and if you go deep enough there are probably Balrogs. But it's hard to deny the fact that the president backed a coup when he backed an invasion into the Capitol building with flags bearing his name and flags of a civil rebellion. Even Wikipedia lists Trump on the [[self-coup]] page. And that happened January 5 -- or one day before this most obvious evidence. And if you were ever a real Republican who believed in law and order, it's hard to say that this is not a really bad look.
If you listened to some of the speeches in the Senate later, there were Republicans making full-throated defenses of Biden's victory, and accusing their colleagues of lying. It's a turning point, at least among the leadership. It may break the Republican Party, or it may break the country altogether, but the mood is definitely not what it was yesterday. It was both ugly and impossible to ignore -- and it might be the excuse people need to cut their habit for good.
¹ A minor note but I'm a member of the Lutheran denomination, which are known as Evangelical Christians in Germany. We had the word first.
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