If you believe in truth, and more importantly, if you believe in He who is the Truth, you will have some sense that lies will always be exposed for what they are. Here is the truth: anything built on lies cannot endure. Light always overcome darkness. When light appears, darkness flees. It’s the nature of things.

It is impossible for that which is contrary to the created structure of reality to last, and God in his almighty sovereign control of all things will not allow it. It is my faith in God and the power of His Truth that gives me confidence that we are living in a time of great revealing. This began in the most unlikely of ways with the most unlikely person, Donald J. Trump, New York real estate billionaire and reality TV star.

It doesn’t matter what you think of the man, if you believe he’s a MAGA hero saving American, or everything his critics and enemies say he is. As Steve Bannon often says, you can spit on the ground when you hear his name, but something happened when he came down the escalator at Trump Tower in New York City on June 16, 2015. Specifically, something happened to the left. The term as I use it covers all who and what we refer to as progressives, the media, Democrats, the deep state, globalists, and RINOs of various stripes, collectively the Uniparty. They are all to one degree or another cultural Marxists (now called wokeness), and Trump broke them. It’s called Trump Derangement Syndrome, and it’s a real psychological malady. We can also refer to them in the title of the piece we’ll be discussing, as the elite. What exactly was this panic last year?

I heard Martin Gurri interviewed by Mark Bauerlein on the First Things Podcast discuss his article about this elite panic. It was gratifying to have someone confirm my conviction of the ultimate futility of the ruling class. Those who get their news and information only from “approved” sources will not realize a great awakening is happening, but for those who seek and utilize alternative, “non-approved” news sources (you know, the kind where you get “disinformation”), the awakening is all over the place. I believe this awakening is ultimately spiritual and will lead to the advance of God’s kingdom and the growth of Christ’s church. The four-year assault by the deep state on Trump was the beginning of my own awakening, but it wasn’t until the covid scam, then the blatant stolen election of 2020, and finally the J6 “insurrection” FBI setup that my eyes were completely wide open.

It’s stunning how naïve I’d been all my adult life now looking back at how obvious so much of the corruption was. It is my trust in our Almighty God that keeps me from the temptation of cynicism, which is a sin. Through all of this, including finding Steve Bannon’s War Room after the 2020 election debacle, I started becoming excited about the future possibilities of our country. Up to that point I’d pretty much been a doomer, glass half empty kind of person when it came to politics and culture. In fact, I often saw the glass as not only empty, but completely dry. One of the reasons is that the only thing conservatives seemed to do is conserve the liberal/progressive gains of the last hundred years. What I call Con (conservative) Inc. (the intellectual and information ecosystem of the conservative movement) sadly turned out to be a con.

We might call what Trump initiated the great elite crack up. The ruling classes hatred of Trump (because he threatens their grift, their money and power) was (and is) so great they can’t control themselves. So they would do anything to rid the political world of the man, including lie, cheat, and steal (elections). They would even go so far as to use a contagious virous to destroy him, which the deep state and leftist media is finally admitting came from a Wuhan lab in China (honest people knew this three years ago). The “Trump-Russia collusion” lies didn’t get the job done, or the impeachment lies, but a virus from China was the perfect opportunity to distort our elections beyond recognition and get him out of office.  That, my friends, is called desperation, and a sign of weakness. The enemies of America haven’t gotten any stronger in the last two years, and thus the article confirming my convictions from Mr. Gurri. Covid was when the ruling class-elite jumped the shark. From Gurri:

Fauci embodied a bureaucracy and political class that, with the active support of the media, had converted the public’s fear of infection into a principle of elite authority. Under this principle, only trained scientists can make projections and recommendations. The writ of government stretched as far as the boundaries of scientific truth—and those boundaries were, of course, determined by government agencies. It wasn’t just a question of specific policies like lockdowns and vaccine mandates. At stake was the restoration of the public’s habit of obedience that had gone missing during the Trump years.

How dare we not passively obey the dictates of the “experts”! Some of us knew this back in the spring of 2020, and never obeyed. I knew something was very rotten in Denmark when the NCAA cancelled March Madness. What? That was the beginning of the end of sports in my life. Even college and professional sports had gone corrupt. I blame a lot of what they did on the panic porn pushed by politicians and the media, but there was zero excuse to add going woke to their Covid missteps, and I was done.

You knew the elites were desperate to protect their lies when they invented the word “disinformation,” the dumbest propaganda word in the history of dumb propaganda words. Gurri addresses the ending of the mask mandate (speaking of dumb, and evil) and Barack Obama’s speech at Stanford University a few days after a Trump appointed judge (how dare she!) in Florida struck down the mandate. As Gurri puts it, for Obama disinformation “is a form of lèse-majesté—any insult to the progressive ruling class,” which Gurri refers to as “the guardian class.” They will protect us whether we like it or not. Obviously we don’t know any better, so free speech be damned! Then Musk bought Twitter. Uh oh. Gurri nails the elite ruling class delusion:

For a considerable number of agitated people, the goal of neutrality was an abomination. Suddenly, “free speech” became a code for something dark and evil—racism, white nationalism, oligarchy, transphobia, “extremist rightwing Nazis”—all the phantoms and goblins that inhabit the nightmares of the progressive mind. Self-awareness was the first casualty of this war of words. The Washington Post, owned by multibillionaire Jeff Bezos, solemnly preached the need for regulation “to prevent rich people from controlling our channels of communication.”

We can file that under, you just can’t make this stuff up! As Gurri adds, “the itch to control what Americans can say online was equated with the defense of freedom. Granting unfettered speech to the rabble, as Musk intended, would be ‘dangerous to our democracy.’” That would be hilarious, if it wasn’t so dangerous. Gurri makes an astute observation:

In a vague and inchoate way, the progressive elites sense that they have power but lack authority. They live in dread of a reversal in the tide of history that will bestow the future to the worst kind of people and the bloody idols they worship.

This is the irony of the third decade of the 21^st century in which we live. The left controls all the levers of cultural and much of the political power, and is at the apex of their societal influence, but in this their weakness is being exposed. Even “normies” (people not obsessed with politics) are getting it. In my favorite metaphor for rule by lies, their Berlin Wall is coming down.