Marx, Nihilism, Charlie Kirk, and the Modern Left

Marx, Nihilism, Charlie Kirk, and the Modern Left

Oct 1, 2025 | America

Roger Daltrey at the end of The Who’s 1971 song, We Won’t Get Fooled Again, sings, “Meet the new boss, same as the old boss.” This came to mind as I’ve been contemplating the brutal, cold blooded murder of Charlie Kirk, and the current iteration of “the left.” The “new revolution” Daltrey sang about was the glory of the baby boom generation in the full flower and arrogance of youth, but he wasn’t buying it. There is something deeply ironic and realistic about the song because he prays, “We don’t get fooled again,” and cynically ends the song with the affirmation that nothing is really going to change, same boss either way.

Applied to our current political and cultural enemies, the New Left of the 60s was the same as the Old Left of the 30s, is the same as the Woke Left of the 2020s. In the 60s and early 70s violence was the calling card of the New Left. Groups like the Weatherman and Black Panthers carried out their crimes as protests against racism and the Vietnam War. Bernardine Dohrn was the leader of a group called the Weather Underground, and they added bombing to their arsenal of violence. She married another Weatherman leader, Bill Ayers, and living in Chicago they became pals of the future president of the United States, Barack Obama, no surprise there. Obama’s election was the beginning of woke and this 21st century version of the left, “new boss, same as the old boss.”

This means Karl Marx’s influence is alive and well. Even though Marxism has morphed and shape shifted over time like the T-1000 cyborg in Terminator 2, like T-1000 it remains the same essence: a malevolent God-hating philosophy bringing misery, havoc, and death wherever it goes. One significant difference in the Marxism of our age is rage. The New Left in the 60s was filled with hatred and anger, but not like today. And Communists have always been cool operators, cold blooded killers, and they still are, but the troops are now fueled by a deep hatred and rage because of woke. They’ve discovered reality refuses to cooperate with them, and like spoiled children they pull tantrums thinking that will get them their way. We have social media to thank for this.

Woke as we know by now was the product of one of those Marxist transformations, what came to be called cultural Marxism. Just a couple years ago it seemed indestructible, in a way the Berlin Wall once seemed indestructible. It seemed its “long march through the institutions” would continue for the foreseeable future, but for those with eyes to see it was just as fragile as the brick and mortar Communist wall. It looked indestructible on the surface, but like the concrete wall separating East from West Germany, it was built on lies, and an empire built on lies cannot endure. That’s why I knew from the “election” of Joe Biden and the full flowering of Woketopia, that it was just a matter of time before it all ignominiously fell, as it already has. As Christians we understand that lies are ultimately powerless because of he who is The Truth. They may be able to kill a Charlie Krik, but they can’t kill Truth. Reality as created by God can only be perverted so much before the rubber band strikes back with a vengeance. As Paul reminds us, “Vengeance is mine; I will repay, saith the Lord.”

The difference with the Marxism in our day as I argue extensively in my book, Going Back to Find the Way Forward, is that it comes at the end of an almost 400 year failed experiment in Western culture to create a society without the God of Scripture. It came to be called, ironically, the Enlightenment. That intellectual movement gave us the illusions of secularism, that it was possible to create a just and harmonious society without God, one in which God was persona non grata, unwelcome at the societal table. It was fine to have him within four church walls, or in our homes and personal lives, but in the public square, God would not be mentioned. Secularism, however, is now a completely spent force; it has nothing left to offer, no promises left to make, its failure apparent to all but the most obstinately blind and their guides. There are still plenty of such guides, and they still hold cultural and some political sway, but their heyday has passed like an aging athlete who pathetically doesn’t know when to call it a day. The day of Marx is over too, but in its death throes it will not go quietly, as we saw in the cold blooded murders of the poor Ukrainian refugee, Iryna Zarutska, and Charlie Kirk.

Invoking the name of Marx means the enemy we battle is part of an almost two hundred year development on a philosophical, sociological, and cultural level. It is important to know the nature of that against which we do battle, and what caused our implacable foe to exist in the first place. For that we turn to Karl Marx himself. Knowing what drives the putrid rot of wokeness is critical if we’re to defeat it, completely, totally, once and for all.

Marx’s Worldview and His Enemies
Frederich Engels in his preface to the Communist Manifesto, co-written with Marx, describes “the history of the modern working-class movement,” and declares just how radical communism needs to be because of the “insufficiency of mere political revolutions.” What is needed is “a total social change.” There can be no tinkering around the edges if there is going to be true societal transformation. And I will remind you what Barack Obama said at a rally just prior to the 2008 election: “We are five days away from fundamentally transforming the United States of America.” Obama like his woke progeny is basically a Marxist. We can see that from Marx’s own words:

The Communist revolution is the most radical rupture with traditional property relations; no wonder that its development involved the most radical rupture with traditional ideas.

These traditional ideas standing in the way of Marx’s Communist, and the current woke, revolution are the enemy, and they must be defeated. Marx’s enemies list stands or falls together:

  1. Private property
  2. The family
  3. The nation-state
  4. Religion, i.e., Christianity

This means there can be no Christ-less conservatism. There is no secular way to keep private property or the family or the nation-state. It was Christianity as the Messianic fulfillment of Judaism that gave us those things, and without it they cannot endure or flourish. The worst nightmare of the Marxist woke radical is a Christian nation. Let’s take a look at the enemies:

Private Property – The idea of human beings owning property is foundational to a well-ordered society with maximal liberty. Those who are not allowed to own property, as in communism, are no better off than slaves who can’t own property but are in fact the property of others. There is no direct affirmation of “private property” in the Bible, but it is everywhere assumed. The word property is common, used 50 to 60 times in the Old Testament (depending on the translation). The Hebrew word means possession. What a person possesses they own; it is their property. This is codified in the Ten Commandments in what is called “the second table of the law,” or six through ten. Most directly it is in the command that we shall not steal, which assume others’ property or possessions belong to them. The Lord makes the point even more powerfully in the tenth commandment against coveting, meaning we are not even to desire anything anyone else calls their own.

Contrary to the entire biblical witness, Marx is unequivocal in his antipathy to private property:

In this sense, the theory of the Communists may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property.

To Marx real private property which is truly (spiritually, ontologically) owned by the person in “modern society” and “capitalist commodity production” can’t exist. So anything called private property in such a society, the only one that exists, must be “abolished” because it leads to “fresh exploitation.” The modern cultural form of Marxism doesn’t focus on private property, but make no mistake, private property is the enemy of Marx and woke.

The Family – As Christians, we don’t need to establish the biblical basis for the family, but we do need to argue that the family, once commonly referred to as the nuclear family, father, mother, children, is the natural order of things. Every society in world history developed with the family as the fundamental building block of its civilization. Even those cultures that practiced polygamy required the man’s commitment to his spouses and children. Through families a culture’s moral values and framework are passed on from generation to generation, and as such must be destroyed by communists. A society comprised primarily of families will never be ripe for revolution or develop the necessary revolutionary consciousness in the population. Thus, Marx is also unequivocal about this:

Abolition of the family! Even the most radical flare up at this infamous proposal of the communists. On what foundation is the present family, the bourgeois family, based? On capital, on private gain. In its completely developed form this family exists only among the bourgeoisie.

Like with most of Marx’s assertions, he begs the question, assuming any family in “modern society” and “capitalist commodity production” is not in fact a “family.” Therefore, such “families” must be abolished. As with everything else in the Marxist philosophy, this is supposed to happen naturally as dialectical materialism works itself out in history: “The bourgeois family will vanish as a matter of course when its compliment vanishes, and both will vanish with the vanishing of capital.” As we witnessed in the twentieth century, nothing vanishes “as a matter of course,” which is why communist regimes are always tyrannical, totalitarian, and bloody. Woke, as we’ve painfully seen, is no different.

The Nation State – As with his critics’ take on private property and the family, Marx addresses those who bring up this criticism, “The Communists are further reproached with desiring to abolish countries and nationality.” His reply? “The workingmen have no country.” So, just like property and family, which by Marxist definition can’t exist in a bourgeois society, neither can “countries and nationality.” This is yet another reason why Christianity was and is the implacable foe of Marxism because it stands in their way. This includes the modern nation-state which developed in Christian Western civilization in many ways because of its Jewish and Christian roots. The idea of nations or peoples is ubiquitous in the Bible, so it stands as a fundamental bulwark to the universalist pretensions of the Marxists as well as the modern globalists who are their offspring.

As we’ve seen in the last ten to fifteen years, this modern version of Marxism is driven by open boarders, a function of the fundamental Marxists hatred of the nation-state.

Religion, i.e., Christianity – Here we come to the crux of the matter. Marx knew it was either Christianity or communism; both could not coexist in the same world. Everything in Marx’s philosophy flowed from his anti-Christian animus. Even though the cultural Marxists believed Marx was in error about economics being the driver of revolution, they embraced this central aspect of Marx’s worldview, that hostility to Christianity would make perpetual revolution possible, so it must be abolished.

Christianity gets the same treatment as every other “traditional idea.” It is dismissed as historically conditioned oppression. His most famous take on religion, or infamous depending on one’s perspective, is that it is “the opium of the people.” His criticism of religion is tinged with a contrived concern for people who supposedly suffer from oppression and look to an illusion to dull the pain. These people may think they are happy, but that too is an illusion keeping them from real happiness. You have to hand it to the guy. Here was a miserable man selling happiness to people who by definition will always be miserable (it’s a requirement) until the revolution brings everything to the dialectical end of history. And people bought it! And still do. The most telling quote from Marx comes right out of the Garden of Eden:

The criticism of religion disillusions man, so that he will think, act, and fashion his reality like a man who has discarded his illusions and regained his senses, so that he will move around himself as his own true Sun. Religion is only the illusory Sun which revolves around man as long as he does not revolve around himself.

The Satanic core at the heart of Marxism, and woke, is blatant: man must be his own God, he must “revolve around himself as his own true sun.”

Nietzsche, Nihilism, and the Modern Left
The logical conclusion and inevitable result of Marxism is Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) and Nihilism, which literally means nothing (from Latin nihil). Wikipedia defines it well: “Nihilism is a family of philosophical views arguing that life is meaningless, that moral values are baseless, or that knowledge is impossible.” While Nietzsche is most often associated with Nihilism, he did not embrace it. He thought the collapse of traditional, i.e. Christian, values, left Western man standing firmly in midair, and destruction would follow, as indeed it did. Walter Kaufmann in his biography of Nietzsche wrote of the realization he had come to about God’s demise:

Nietzsche prophetically envisages himself as a madman; to have lost God means madness; and when mankind will discover that it has lost God, universal madness will break out. This apocalyptic sense of dreadful things to come hangs over Nietzsche’s thinking like a thundercloud. We have destroyed our own faith in God. There remains only the void. We are falling. Our dignity is gone. Our values are lost. Who is to say what is up and what is down.

Mind you, Nietzsche was convinced we live in a God-less universe because he uncritically accepted all the materialist assumptions of the Enlightenment. It was rationalism he found distasteful, and the failure of modernists to accept the implications of what they believed. Because God was dead, and the “slave morality,” as he called it, of Christianity was no longer valid, a new moral system needed to be developed, and he was just the man to do it! Thus, his ideas of the “will to power” and the Übermensch, or overman, were critical to developing an alternative moral system. Most profoundly, Nietzsche predicted the horrors of the 20th century, death on a massive scale never before seen in the history of the world.

Western man thought he could be rid of Christian moral values without consequences, and Nietzsche knew that was delusional, as was he for thinking he could make up values out of thin air, or ironically, out of nothing except man’s own mind. He thought man could avoid nihilism if he would only realize he had to be “like God knowing good and evil.” I don’t know if he ever put it that way, but in effect he fully agreed with Marx, that man had to “move around himself as his own true Sun.” Reality, however, cannot be mocked because God is the Creator of all things. Deny him and nothingness is all you got. Of course, nobody can embrace the absurdity of true meaninglessness, true Nihilism, so what we are left with in Nietzsche’s phrase is, “the will to power.” Although Nietzsche believed in truth, you can’t get to truth from dirt. Mere atoms and molecules tell us nothing about right and wrong. Rejecting God, however, doesn’t keep people from believing in right and wrong, only now the standard is completely arbitrary. It is whatever we say it is. If anyone disagrees, they will be made to agree, or be silenced. That’s the strategy of the trans-terrorists and the left in general, New Left, Old Left, Modern Left, new boss same as the old boss.

Charlie Kirk’s assassination is the logical conclusion of the death of God, of man being his own God, and the only rational endpoint is nihilism. The benefit we have in this third decade of the 21st century is that we are living at a turning point in history, the end of something and the beginning of something new. Turning Point turns out to be the prophetic name of the organization Charlie started and led. This is the Great Awakening I wrote about in my last book, a movement of God coming as we are living through the demise of secularism, the failed experiment I wrote of above. The younger generation is no longer satisfied with secular materialist answers that give them no meaning, no hope, no fulfillment, no ultimate purpose. That’s why Charlie the Christian evangelist and apologist was so effective, and was not only building an army of young political activists, but of young Christians who saw their faith as integral to everything they do, political or not. The sexual revolution has been officially replaced with the Christian revolution, with traditional values and a family revolution.

We can also now see the left, their nihilism, their “will to power,” for what it really is, and because of social media and the way kids get their news now, the lies no longer work. The left can no longer control “the narrative” as they once did. There are no more illusions of something substantive, some rationale that gives the left’s actions justification, and everyone knows it, even the liars themselves, which is why they have to lie. They are just raging against the machine because they can’t get their way anymore. They had to get rid of Charlie Kirk /because he was uniquely effective with the younger generation they are losing. The new boss is going into the dustbin of history, the same as the old boss.

 

 

 

 

Heritage America or America as an Idea

Heritage America or America as an Idea

Aug 20, 2025 | America

In case you hadn’t noticed from my surname with all the vowels, my heritage is Italian, Sicilian to be exact. It became a topic of debate on Twitter when someone wondered if I could be an American. The question is, what is an American and how does one become one? The answer isn’t as simple as you might think.

Most normal people don’t spend time interacting with strangers on social media, so they might not know of the concept of heritage America or Americans. It’s a reaction to the left’s globalism and open boarders fetish, and their aversion to nations, but especially nationalism. Since Obama and the push of globalists throughout Europe to allow unfettered immigration into their countries, much of it illegal, there has been an understandable backlash. Brexit in the UK in 2016 and Trump later that year in America were part of that backlash. The concept of Christian nationalism is also a something that vexes people on the left and right alike, although for different reasons. Ever since a certain little man with a mustache terrorized Europe in the name of National Socialism, Western cultural elites have had an aversion to nationalism of any kind. A phrase I’ve heard used to tar the heritage America types is ethno-nationalist, and that apparently is not a good thing. “Blood and soil” is another phrase that’s apparently not good.

Something else giving rise to a heritage America movement is, “America as an idea,” something that has been popular among conservatives since the movement started in the 1950s. It goes back to Lincoln and the Gettysburg Address when he began his historical speech with these eloquent words:

Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure.

 In other words, America is the “proposition nation,” which proposition goes back to Jefferson and the Declaration of Independence:

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.

In 1776 this was a radical notion because the only self-evident truth up to then was that no men were created equal, be that in class or station or talents or intelligence or ambition, or any number of other things. In due course equality became not only a basic American assumption, but a right. To even question it was to be un-American. The left turned it into egalitarianism, an obsession to make all people equal through the force of law. Whatever the details, they now call it equity. In due course America as an idea was accepted as axiomatic.

The conversation on Twitter I had on this topic came from someone who posted a link of Ronald Reagan saying something that offended him:

Anyone, from any corner of the Earth, can come to live in America and become an American…This, I believe, is one of the most important sources of America’s greatness.

With a predictable slap at boomers, he said this made Reagan a “full blown globohomo,” or a global man. I know, this is a strange thing to say of the President whose slogan in his campaign against Jimmy Carter was, Make America Great Again. Yes, Trump took it from Reagan.

I responded that my grandfather had come from Sicily in 1912 at the age of 16, pushed by his mother because she wanted him to have a better life than being a peasant in Sicily. When he eventually started a family he would not speak Italian in his home because he was a proud American. Then my Twitter friend asked this question.

Why/how was he an American?

I’ll confess that the old Italian blood got boiling on that. Somewhere in my mind I thought, how dare you question the patriotism of my grandfather, that somehow because he wasn’t born here, or whatever, that he wasn’t as American as anyone else. I replied and finished with this:

Who qualifies to be an American and when to the “heritage America” crowd? I’m sympathetic to you guys, but it does get annoying after a while.

Then he followed up with another question:

If he went to Kenya and did the same, would he have been Kenyan?

Seriously? He’s comparing America to Kenya? Is he implying that America isn’t unique? Isn’t in some way different than every other country in the world? That all nations are just nations? This is when I knew I had to write about this and figure out why this annoyed me so much, and at the same time why I see value in this idea of heritage America.

I’ll share my conclusion before I make my case. The reason people from all over earth can come to America and become Americans is because America is both an idea and a heritage to be lived and embraced, and assimilation makes all the difference. My grandfather couldn’t do what he did in quite the same way in any other country on earth.

What Makes America Unique
When I use the word unique, I use it technically as defined, “existing as the only one or as the sole example; single; solitary in type or characteristics.” There is not, and has never been, a country, a nation like America, truly a novus ordo seclorum, a new order of the ages—a phrase included on the Great Seal of the United States, designed in 1782, and on the back of the U.S. one-dollar bill. Few people, if any, would question this, but America’s uniqueness isn’t just because of ideas in a document declaring American independence from England. This gets to the heart of the matter.

Lincoln in 1862 said that America is “the last, best hope of earth,” a quote Reagan often used during the Cold War. Mere ideas don’t do that, don’t create a nation drawing people from all over the earth for 250 years, as Emma Lazarus wrote, “your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free.” A phrase that captures this is one our leftist countrymen loathe: American exceptionalism. To them it reeks of xenophobia, as if pointing out the obvious makes us fearful of “the other,” of those culturally different from us. That word culture is the issue. Let’s see what created the unique American culture and identity, and continues to this day.

English settlement and the origins of the American consciousness, began with Jamestown and Captain John Smith in 1607, but really picked up steam with the great Puritan migration to New England from the 1620s through the early 1640s. John Winthrop, who settled Massachusetts Bay Colony, modern Boston, in June 1630, was part of this migration. Winthrop, like all Puritans, believed the God of the Hebrews and their Savior was a covenant making God who promised faithfulness and blessing if they remained committed to obedience and His glory. As he penned the famous words, if they were faithful, “we shall be as a City upon a Hill. The eyes of all people are upon us.” And if not, they “shall be made a story and byword through the world.” The founders echoed the Puritans that this experiment depended on the blessing of obedience to God, and curses if not. In fact, various studies have shown the Bible is the most quoted book of the Founders and the founding generation, Deuteronomy being one of the favorites, especially chapter 28 of the blessings for obedience and curses for disobedience.

But it wasn’t just Puritans and New England. America wouldn’t have become America if its development had not happened exactly the way it did with a variety of types of British peoples moving so far from home confronting the daunting American geography, a situation unique in the history of the world. This is wonderfully  captured in A Patriot’s History of the United States by Larry Schweikart and Michael Allen. They masterfully tell the story of how these circumstances are without parallel in history, how a new world was forming a people whose character, mentality, and vision was forged for liberty and self-government in an unforgiving land of boundless opportunity far from their motherland.

I would add, without the specific Protestant versions of Christianity they all embraced to one degree or another, America doesn’t happen. Here is a quotation from A Patriot’s History to emphasize the ubiquity of Christianity in the American consciousness of the eighteenth century. Writing about something every colonial settler and western pioneer understood:

[C]haracter was tied to a Christian tradition, which was then tied to liberty through a widespread acceptance of common law, and liberty to property—preserved and protected by titles and deeds and, soon, by a free market. All four were needed for success, but character was the prerequisite because it put the law behind property agreements, and it set responsibility right next to liberty. And the surest way to ensure the presence of good character was to keep God at the center of one’s life, community, and ultimately, nation. . . . It went back to that link between liberty and responsibility, and no one could be taken seriously who was not responsible to God. “Where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.” They believed those words.

The First Great Awakening of the 1730s and 40s was another powerful influence on the social and political life of Americans for it drove the implications of Christianity deep into the American consciousness. Robert Curry in his book, Common Sense Nation, Unlocking the Forgotten Power of the American Idea, agrees: “the Great Awakening prepared the way for the American Revolution in too many ways to be counted.” Pulpits across America, influential in a way modern Americans can’t comprehend, were aflame with justifications for liberty and revolution. Americans as Englishmen saw their rights earned centuries before being blithely discarded by the British government. None of this was in the realm of abstract “rights” intellectual conservatives love to argue about. In other words, it wasn’t just about an idea, a mere proposition. It was real, boots on the ground, everyday living as self-governing people before God who granted them the liberty to live their own lives.

Americans were eminently practical people, including its intellectual leaders. Russel Kirk also shows how the founding was not merely an idea, or some abstract intellectual debate about “natural rights.” In his book, The Roots of American Order he writes :

When educated Americans of that century approved a writer, commonly it was because his books confirmed well their American experience, justified their American institutions, appealed to convictions they had held already: with few exceptions, the Americans were not fond of intellectual novelties.

Yoram Hazony in Conservatism: A Rediscovery, confirms this, asserting that America emerged from “a century and a half of civil social order in North America and more than seven centuries of British experience.”

America is also a common sense nation. America’s intellectual class was as dialed in to Enlightenment ideas as anybody could be at the time, but the ideas coming from Europe would take on a distinctly American cast through the influence of scholars and clergy who brought ideas of the Scottish Enlightenment to colonial America. These ideas combined with the unique circumstances and the Founders’ genius, allowed them to create something entirely new in the history of the world. The primary influence of the Scots on Americans was Thomas Reid and what came to be called Scottish common sense realism. This philosophy was a pushback against more abstract and speculative philosophical ideas of the time.

People, especially Americans, were hungry for the real, and common sense realism gave it to them. Simply, it states we all have innate ideas that can be known and don’t have to be taught to us. As esoteric as this may sound, it had world transforming implications for the America of the late eighteenth century and its politics, grounding human knowing not in isolated human reason, but in moral sense. One more thing is critical to the American common sense state of mind, probably the most unique idea of the founding argued initially by Locke—popular sovereignty. In societies previously, only the ruling elite were seen as capable of ruling the common people. That all radically changed in America as stated by Robert Curry:

Here then is the rock upon which the Founders will build their idea of republican self-government: because a person who is capable of acting with common prudence in the conduct of life is capable of discovering what is true and what is false in matters that are self-evident, self-government is possible. . . . [Because] the rightful purpose of government is securing its citizens’ unalienable rights, government is necessarily limited government, limited because its reach is defined by the vast field of liberty reserved for the citizens.

Vast field of liberty, I like it! The Founders could make such arguments because of the Hebrew and Christian idea of a personal Creator God of Scripture and man made in His image everywhere assumed and taught in American culture of the time. Not to mention the Christian England and common law tradition bequeathed to the Founders since Alfred the Great, and these ideas developing over centuries.

The Scot’s had other practical influences on America’s founding, including in the development of how people thought of government. According to Curry:

John Knox, the Martin Luther of the Scottish Reformation, founded the Presbyterian Church in 1560-1561. Long before the Founders began to make their argument for popular sovereignty, Knox preached popular sovereignty as a matter of doctrine. Political authority, Knox taught and the Presbyterians believed, ultimately belonged to the people. According to Knox, the people had the right to choose those who would manage their political affairs, and it was the people’s right to remove them at will.

The church, or as the Scottish called it, the Kirk, from the beginning was a representative system of government, unheard of in the world up to that time. The entire way the Kirk was managed was representative from top to bottom. Curry adds:

Both the doctrine of popular sovereignty and a functioning representative governing body that embodied the doctrine of popular sovereignty were unique to Scotland during the time.

Knox also laid the theological foundations for the right of Christians to resist wicked rulers. Most Christians at the time believed it was morally wrong to revolt against the king. In fact, many people called it a Presbyterian revolution.

Lastly, the variety of types of British peoples who came to carve out new lives in the vast wilderness of America all brought Protestant Christian convictions with them, including how their churches and communities should be governed. The Puritans, Presbyterians, and Congregationalists who then came to America brought these ideas with them and they eventually made their way into the consciousness and government of Americans.

America: Both an Idea and a Heritage
As I said above, these two perspectives on America are not contradictory or mutually exclusive, and they are what make America truly unique among all the nations of the world. Pat Buchanan, who has been right about these things for a long time, encapsulated why the heritage piece of the equation is the priority:

It is not true that all creeds and cultures are equally assimilable in a First World nation born of England, Christianity, and Western civilization. Race, faith, ethnicity and history leave genetic fingerprints no ‘proposition nation’ can erase.

This is not to say one has to be of Anglo American descent to be allowed to live in America and be considered an American, or none of my family and millions like us would be American. This is because the propositions of America’s founding promise are in some sense to “all men,” as long as they are willing assimilate to Anglo, Christian, American culture. It’s also why people from all over the world can come here and if they fully participate in the spirit of America, what we call assimilation, can become Americans. If they are not, mere citizenship will not make them Americans. This twofer, if you will, is why we can’t just export the Constitution to another country, and it become like America with the same blessings of liberty, order, and prosperity.   

The unique American DNA consists of ideas stemming from our experience as a people over several hundred years. Think of those who first migrated to America prior to the Revolution. They were 3,000 miles from home and had a vast hostile continent to tame. That meant they needed to be a self-governing people who valued their independence and be willing overcome seemingly insurmountable challenges against insurmountable odds. These historically unique circumstances seemed to be made for an Anglo-Saxon people who had been schooled for 500 years in Anglo idea of the rule of law since Magna Carta in 1215 through the Glorious Revolution in 1688. America’s founders were as steeped in this history as they were of Ancient Greece and Rome, and Christianity. All of these ideas seeped into the American psyche to make the most exceptional nation the world has ever known.

The power of the two together, ideas and heritage, are what allowed America to endure endless waves of migration over two centuries and maintain its unique identity. Globalist Democrats and their leftist base despise that because they despise America as founded. Opening our boarders to multitudes of illegal immigrants who have no desire to assimilate, or even understand it, is a strategy form them to take down what is truly unique about America. They want to turn it into America the unexceptional. Thank God for Donald Trump who in 2015 was the only politician, Democrat or Republican, willing to call this out for what it is, the desire to destroy America. In addition to halting illegal immigration as he has done, we also need to significantly limit legal immigration, as we did prior to 1964. As great and unique as America is, it can only handle so much cultural assimilation and not turn into something different. Every American needs to be a heritage American.

 

Does America Have a Judeo-Christian Heritage?

Does America Have a Judeo-Christian Heritage?

Jul 23, 2025 | America, Uncategorized

Since I started getting active on Twitter in early 2024, I’ve come across many on the New Christian Right, or whatever we might be called, who are not fans of the phrase Judeo-Christian, to say the least. It upsets them because it seems to make Christianity a part of Judaism, or confuses Christianity with Judaism, or misses the point that Christianity is the fulfillment of Judaism. I’m not exactly sure, but these are my best guesses. They are, also to say the least, not fans of modern Israel, or the dispensationalism that believes Isreal is still part of God’s redemptive plan. Their animus toward the phrase never sat well with me, and I tended to see it as making something out of nothing. Then I saw this short post from Joel Webbon on Twitter:

Judeo-Christianity is a pernicious false religion.

And this was my response:

Joel, technically it’s not a religion at all, and nobody is claiming it is. People who use it don’t use it as a noun as you do, but as an adjective.

The phrase reflects an ethos, a tradition born of Judaism and it’s fulfillment in Christianity. It’s fine far as it goes, except many people using it assume the myth of neutrality is true, and do not believe a nation should be Christian. That’s what we should focus on, not that Judea-Christian is a religion.

Joel’s statement made me realize the heart of their problem with the phrase was thinking it’s affirming a mixed religion that is not Christianity. I believe dispensationalism has contributed to this because dispensationalists really do believe modern Judaism and the nation-state of Israel are in effect part of the Christian religion and its ultimate eschatological fulfillment. In fact, what’s going on in Israel now is, according to the dispensationalists, part of God’s fulfilling his Old Testament covenant promises to Israel. This is why they will tell us to “pray for the peace of Jerusalem,” and why they seem to have unqualified support for the nation of Israel. It’s almost as if Israel can do no wrong, whereas people like Joel seem to believe Israel can do no right. I’m in the unenvious position of being somewhere in between these positions.

I was wondering when the term “Judeo-Christian” was first used, and so of course asked Grok:

The term “Judeo-Christian” was first used in the early 19th century. Its earliest known appearance is in an 1821 letter by English writer Joseph Wolff, referring to a “Judeo-Christian” community in the context of religious conversion. The term gained broader usage in the 20th century, particularly in the United States, to describe shared ethical and cultural values between Judaism and Christianity.

That goes back much further than I would have guessed. I suspected it wouldn’t have been used until Israel became a nation in 1948, and the dispensationalists were saying, “See, we told you so!” But there is no doubt since Israel became a nation, and then a stable ally in the Middle East, that phrase became common among conservatives and Christians. I have no problem with it, and I don’t think any Christian should, mainly because it’s an accurate description, as I said to Joel, of the ethos or traditions America inherited at its founding.

Was the Jewish Religion Significant in America’s Founding?
The simple answer is yes, but of course through the lens of a thoroughly Protestant, dominant Calvinistic, culture. The First Great Awakening of the 1730s and 40s was a powerful influence on the social and political life of Americans for it drove the implications of Christianity deep into the American consciousness. Given this move of God’s Spirit was antiauthoritarian and democratic, the Crown would not have been happy about it. Robert Curry in his book, Common Sense Nation, agrees, saying “the Great Awakening prepared the way for the American Revolution in too many ways to be counted.” Pulpits across America, influential in a way modern Americans can’t comprehend, were aflame with justifications for liberty and revolution.

I have a book on my shelf called Political Sermons of the American Founding Era, 1730-1805, and it clocks in at just shy of 1600 pages. As I’ve dipped into it over the last ten or so years, many of the sermons are based on Old Testament texts. Christians themselves saw Judaism as integral to building a Christian nation, but of course in a Christian context of fulfillment. We also know that the founders quoted from the Bible more than any other book or thinker, modern or ancient, and Deuteronomy was the book they quoted from most. They also didn’t see Jewish religious practice in any way inimical or contradictory to the spirit of America’s experiment in Republican government. The issue, it appears to me, comes down to religious liberty, and if that concept is consistent with the idea of a Christian nation. America’s founders apparently didn’t think so. Before we explore religious liberty in more detail, let’s look at how George Washington, our first president and arguably the man who made America possible, saw that liberty in practice.

Washington visited Rhode Island in 1790 to acknowledge the state’s recent ratification of the Constitution and to promote passage of the Bill of Rights, the first ten amendments to the Constitution.  When he visited Newport he met a delegation of citizens who read him messages of welcome. One of those citizens was Moses Seixas, the warden of the Touro Synagogue in Newport. Remarkably, Seixas in his welcome would use words Washington quoted verbatim in a letter back to the congregation. Seixas gave thanks to “the Ancient of Days, the great preserver of men” that the Jews, previously “deprived … of the invaluable rights of free Citizens” on account of their religion, now lived under a government “which to bigotry gives no sanction, to persecution no assistance.” Speaking of all American citizens possessing alike liberty of conscience and immunities of citizenship, Washington writes:

It is now no more that toleration is spoken of as if it were the indulgence of one class of people that another enjoyed the exercise of their inherent natural rights, for, happily, the Government of the United States, which gives to bigotry no sanction, to persecution no assistance, requires only that they who live under its protection should demean themselves as good citizens in giving it on all occasions their effectual support.

For Washington and the founders, one of our “inherent natural rights” as Americans was to worship as we please, which could not be considered mere toleration. Freedom of conscience was an inviolable right of all Americans of whatever religious persuasion. I’m sure they would have some ambivalence at the breadth of cultural and religious diversity in America today, but it’s reasonable to believe the same attitude Washington had to the Jewish worshipers in his day would apply to others in ours.

Are Christian Nationalism and Religious Liberty Compatible? The Secular Myth of Neutrality
The answer to that question very much depends on what you mean by religious liberty, which for Christians is not as easy a question to answer as you might think—unless you’re a secularist. Unfortunately most Christians are indeed secular. In fact, most Christians and conservatives are liberals, who believe in a kind of pluralism based on the secular myth of neutrality.

According to this myth, there is no preferred religion because secularism welcomes all religions equally. The public square is a place where God is unwelcome, persona non grata. Christianity gets a seat at the table just like any other religion, be it Islam or Hinduism or Buddhism or atheism, but no religion, including Christianity, gets privileged status. I’ll briefly address this below, but I’ve dismantled this myth here previously, many times actually, but the concept of religious liberty today is a thoroughly secular concept that wasn’t fully accepted in America until the glorious 1960s. That’s when the post-World War II consensus of neutrality took over and the privileged status of Christianity was, well neutered. It would be some years before Christianity was treated as a threat to all that is good and decent and right, but in the Biden years that’s exactly where we were, in law and culture. Then Trump 2.0. Mind you, secularism and the myth is still alive and well, but Christianity is no longer the whipping boy it was when woke was king.

The question in a nation with a Christian self-conception is how much latitude in religious practice we allow. Complete carte blanche, do whatever you want? Should Satan worship be allowed? Animal sacrifice? Drug induced “worship”? Only the most radical secularist libertarian would argue that no lines should be drawn; the question is what and where. You’ll notice I said a nation with a “Christian self- conception.” Up until those 1960s most Americans would have said yes, we are a Christian nation. They wouldn’t have obsessed with details, or panicked over, God forbid, a possible theocracy. Every nation in the West prior that time had a Christian self-conception. Just watch the coronation of King Charles in May of 2023, and see how steeped England still is at some level in its own Christian self-conception. At every other level, it is radically secular. All the assumptions that run every aspect of societies in the West are secular. This is slowly changing as nationalist-populist movements with Christian awareness are growing throughout the West, not least in the unashamed Christianity the permeates the Trump administration. That would not have been on my bingo card!

I won’t solve the question of religious liberty in America in such a short space, but it’s something Christians need to discuss and debate and maybe even come to some agreement on as, God willing, Christianity again becomes dominant in America. Getting rid of secularism in the church would be a good start, in fact an essential start. If we can’t convince our brothers and sisters in Christ that neutrality is a myth, then a Christian America is a pipe dream. I know, most see this as the longest of long shots, but I don’t. Secularism is dead, as I argue in detail in my latest book, Going Back to Find the way Forward, and something needs to fill that societal vacuum it leaves as it whimpers away in its exposed futility.

I often use the Berlin Wall as a metaphor for secularism. It appeared so strong and impenetrable, so enduring. Almost everyone except a very few, including Ronald Reagan, thought the Berlin Wall wouldn’t be going anywhere in our lifetimes. In fact, when Ronnie told Gorbachev to “tear down this wall” in Berlin in June 1987, I thought, now you’ve really lost it, Ronnie! That ain’t happening. Two and a half years later it did. The reason is that its strength was an illusion. An empire built on lies cannot endure, and secularism is a lie, every bit as much as East Germany was. Why is it a lie? Because it assumes societal neutrality is possible; it is not. Let my quote some thinkers who make the point. R.J. Rushdoony in his book Politics of Guilt & Pity says of the impossibility of neutrality as an undisputable fact:

Modern thinkers to the contrary, law is a product of metaphysics, a cultural expression of a basically religious fact. The contemporary avoidance of metaphysics is by no means its elimination. Men do not dispense with metaphysics merely because they refuse to discuss it.

Metaphysics is a word coined by Aristotle. He wrote a work about the physical world called Physics, which is basically his observations of the physical world. He then wrote a book called The Metaphysics, which is “beyond” or “after” physics, his study into the underlying nature of things. He calls this “first philosophy,” a study of being, of the fundamental principles and causes of all things. In other words, it’s the opposite of secular because God and spiritual things are metaphysical, and law inevitably flows from how we see ultimate reality. In the secular world, our Creator is the Darwinian mechanism of natural selection by random mutation, or chance. Man makes his own rules, his own laws, there is no meta-physics. Those are modern man’s fundamental assumptions. Yes, as Rushdoony says, they cannot be escaped:

Vishal Mangalwadi in his wonderful book, The Book That Made Your World, states an unalterable fact of existence:

Every civilization is tied together by a final source of authority that gives meaning and ultimate intellectual, moral, and social justification to its culture.

This includes its laws. We can have either a secular nation (or Islamic or Hindu, etc.), or a Christian nation. Whatever that “final source of authority” will determine the nature of that society and it’s culture. In a secular society it is man, the ultimate fulfillment of which is the state, which means there is no recourse beyond the state, and thus tyranny is inevitable.

Liberty of Conscience and Religious Liberty
We can’t discuss religious liberty without considering liberty of conscience, and those two should never be confused. Even in ancient Israel, the theocracy all modern people seem to fear, foreigners were mostly part of the moral and ceremonial lives of the Hebrews, but they were never forced to believe anything. Yet I often hear people claim that a Christian America would be a theocracy like ancient Israel, and people would be forced to believe in Christianity. No they wouldn’t because God never forces people to believe anything, and neither should we. In fact, if you look at Jesus in the gospels, he goes out of his way to get people not to believe in him! He was not interested in making Christianity easy, and often went out of his way to make it hard. But Jesus was not interested in establishing a government but in saving the world. He left the government stuff to his followers once he left the scene for good, and gave us the deposit of his presence in the Holy Spirit at Pentecost.

The idea of a liberty of conscience in Western culture, and in fact the entire world, comes from Martin Luther’s confrontation with the establishment of his day. He declared that his conscience was captive to the Word of God, and that “it is neither safe nor right to go against conscience.” Those who were insisting he recant, or else, could care less about his conscience. They had societies to run and couldn’t allow every person to willy nilly believe whatever they wanted. Who knows what kind of societal chaos would follow if that were allowed. Luther was a dangerous precedent, and he had to be stopped. Gutenberg’s Press made that a futile endeavor, but we come to the wrong conclusion if we think liberty of conscience and religious liberty are synonymous. The former is absolute because God has not given us the right nor the power to coerce human thought. The totalitarians of the 20th century learned that the hard way, speaking of the Berlin Wall. Having said that we come back to lines.

Most Christians and conservatives have been completely indoctrinated into the secular zeitgeist. This spirit of the times in which we’ve lived for the last hundred years tells us America has always been a secular nation. In fact, even Christian historians like Mark Noll, Nathan Hatch, and George Marsden claim America’s Founders were primarily Deists and Unitarians and “not in any traditional sense Christian.” That quote comes from their book, The Search for Christian America, and one gets the impression they did not find it. In fact, America was in every sense a Christian Nation, even if it was not overtly enough for some of us.

I go back to the phrase I used above, a Christian self-conception. For most of our history, everything about the beliefs and worldview of almost all Americans was Christian. Christian morality, God’s law, the Bible, all were relevant to daily life and the life of government. As is often pointed out, nine of the thirteen colonies had established churches, and they had a religious test for public office. If a man didn’t affirm certain Christian doctrines, he wasn’t allowed to run for office. Nobody saw that as anti-American, or a violation of our modern secular dogma of the “separation of church and state.” Nobody. That isn’t to say we should do the same thing today, only that Christianity was never seen as inimical to the liberty established at America’s founding. In fact, contrary to what most everyone believes today except we “Christian nationalists,” is that Christianity is the foundation and requirement for true religious liberty. Secularism always and everywhere will lead to tyranny and totalitarianism.

Having said this, we must realize that every government and society draws “religious” lines. A “Judeo-Christian” society will not draw the same lines as a Christian society, but lines will be drawn. They always are and always will be. I’ll say it again: Neutrality doesn’t exist. Everything allowed or promoted affirms a worldview, and dismisses others. It’s just the nature of things. Since most of us like America and living in a representative republic, that means we at some level have to convince our fellow citizens about what those lines need to be. We can pass laws that are unpopular, but those will not be enforced unless the people embrace them. The current illegal immigration crisis is a good example. The vast majority of Americans hate it no matter how much leftists and Democrats lie about it. Ultimately, the American people have to be on board or things don’t happen.

The mission, should we choose to accept it, is to first convince our Christian brothers and sisters that the secular nation driven myth of neutrality is a Satanic lie. The American people won’t be convinced until the church is. The myth sounds good on paper, but it always leads to tyrannical results. While a result of hundreds of years of cultural change, the myth of neutrality is primarily a product of what’s come to be called the “Post World War II Consensus.” Thankfully, this consensus is falling apart as populist nationalism and the Great Awakening are moving around the world. Making America Christian Again will allow us to one day escape secularism and practice true religious liberty and freedom of conscience.

 

 

 

 

Trump, A Great Awakening, and the Refounding of America

Trump, A Great Awakening, and the Refounding of America

Mar 26, 2025 | America

If you’re not one of my multitude of fans, all three of them, you won’t know this is the subtitle of the book I published last year, Going Back to Find the Way Forward. As we see things unfolding in Trump’s second term, I’m thinking I might be some sort of prophet. Since most of you reading or listening to this haven’t read the book, you may want to check it out to see the bigger, grand historical context in which our momentous times are taking place.

If we look back through redemptive history we see God working out his plans to redeem His people and His earth even up to this very day. None of what’s happening now should be seen outside of its historical, ultimately redemptive context, even in the grimy world of politics and governing. Thy kingdom come thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven applies as much there as it does in our personal lives and in our churches. If you don’t believe this, or if that statement rubs you the wrong way, I encourage you to read or listen to three of my previous posts:

Because I now see the Christian faith, mine included, as something grounded and rooted in history, nothing that happens is outside of God’s ultimate redemptive purposes. History is the outworking of those purposes, of which are the subject of my book. Let’s see why I believe everything that is happening is of God.

God, Red Pills, and History’s Dividing Line
As 2024 progressed and Democrats continued to double down on stupid, I became increasingly optimistic, an optimism developing since I first came across Steve Bannon’s War Room after the 2020 election. As a long-time card carrying member of Con Inc., officially from when Reagan was first elected, I had gotten used to conservative losing. Our side talked a good game, but never did anything to actually challenge the progressive status quote, let alone push back. Then Trump.

Democrats will rue the day they did everything in their power to not let Trump win the 2020 election. If he had, his second term would have been mired in controversy and “resistance,” but most importantly the Democrats would not have been able to inflict wokestan upon the American people to the degree they did, which opened the eyes of tens of millions of Americans to their stupidity and lies. They actually believed what they were doing was morally good and the American people were behind them. Lies will tend to make people delusional. As important as the left’s blindness and stupidity, Trump and the people around him would not have had those four years to learn what they did wrong in the first term, and apply it in his second. He’s accomplishing things literally nobody thought possible. Even Democrat analysts are amazed, saying in effect this is truly something new under the sun. Even worse for the Democrats? They pissed Trump off, pardon the French, but trying to kill and put him in prison for 500 years will do that to a guy. The determined, angry, focused Trump is the Democrat’s and left’s worst nightmare.

What explains all this? If God isn’t at the top of your list, you’re not paying attention. As the book developed over ’22 and ’23, I would look at the print on my office wall Washington praying next to his great white steed at Valley Forge. Painted by Arnold Friberg to celebrate America’s bicentennial in 1976, its symbolic meaning would grow in importance to me by the day. I began to realize the odds against the newborn American republic were far worse than ours against the leftist woke Uniparty deep state. America should have been still born against the mighty British Empire, so God explains our founding as He does our potential refounding.

The founders fervently believed their success ultimately depended on the Almighty God revealed to us in Scripture. The supposed Diest, Benjamin Franklin, may have said it best. At the convention where the details of America’s experiment in self-government were being hashed out, he said these words to the august attendees which could come out of the mouth of any fervent Evangelical of that time or now:

I have lived, Sir, a long time, and the longer I live, the more convincing proofs I see of this truth, that God governs in the affairs of men. And if a sparrow cannot fall to the ground without His notice, is it probable that an empire can rise without His aid? We have been assured, Sir, in the Sacred Writings, that “except the Lord build the House, they labor in vain that build it.” I firmly believe this; and I also believe that without His concurring aid we shall succeed in this political building no better than the Builders of Babel.

In our case the question is, can an empire endure. Only God knows, but more importantly it is only God who determines whether it will or not. As I was writing I believed and hoped that was true, but now I’m suspecting in fact it is. God appears not to be done with the United States of America!

 

Everyone in the world knew, even the hardcore atheists were tempted to admit it, that Trump turning his head at that exact moment wasn’t chance. And then the raised fist and Fight! Fight! Fight! Are you kidding me? I get chills envisioning it again as I write this. If we didn’t know any better we would think this was scripted by mega reality TV Star Trump, but we do know better, and it was most certainly scripted by Almighty God. Both Reagan and John Paul II believed God saved them from the assassin’s bullet for a reason, and that was so together they could defeat the Godless Soviet Union. Trump too is a man on a mission to defeat the progeny of those same Soviets embodied in our Democrat Party and everything they stand for in American government and culture. Trump is on a mission from God, having said as much, that God spared him to do exactly what he’s been doing since January 20 at noon Eastern Standard Time.

As I’ve often said, this Great Awakening, the one I write about in the book, is not at all like the previous Great Awakenings. Those were primarily spiritual, taking place in thoroughly Christian cultures among Christian peoples steeped in Christians assumptions and a Christian worldview. This Great Awakening is happening in a thoroughly secular culture whose assumptions and worldview are agnostic. Like the ancient Epicureans, everybody believes in God, save the very atheist few, but lives as if God is completely irrelevant to their lives and the world, persona non grata. We call this religion moralistic therapeutic deism, the faith of secularism, a failed several hundred year experiment in Western culture out of whose ashes will come a new Christendom. It so happens that Trump came along right at the time secularism was showing its age, its impoverished worldview leaving an increasing number of people looking for more.

Because this awakening is not only spiritual but broadly culture, red pill experiences are touching people just at the point of what I call in the book, “the dividing line in Western culture: truth.” Whether this is related to politics, or the administrative state, or endless wars and the military industrial complex, or the Uniparty and Con In., or money and economics, or justice and injustice, or health and the medical-industrial complex, Big Pharma and Big Food, or the woke insanity, those whose eyes are opened are those who care most passionately about truth. And I argue that even if these people are not yet Christians, they just haven’t realized their allegiance to truth points them inevitably to the one who is The Truth. As such, truth itself has metaphysical and spiritual implications. I believe this is why Jesus and Christianity in our cultural moment is no longer uncool and “controversial.” I recently wrote a piece about how We Went from Negative to Positive World in One Day! Even the non-Christians know Christianity captures something deeply at the heart of the nature of reality, and it’s now welcome in the public square like it hasn’t been in a long time. They know something about Christianity leads to societal flourishing. We need to build on that.

The Founding of America
Covid was a blessing in disguise. So many things came to light for so many people during those few years it’s impossible to see any chance of refounding America without it. God’s providential sovereign control of all things could not have been displayed any more clearly if an airplane was writing it in the sky. Of course, in the midst of a storm it’s difficult to see anything but the storm, but since life is 20/20 hindsight, we can see His hand all over the place. As for many things in life, the easiest way to see it is in contrast. Holding two things side by side allows us to compare them and see what we’re really dealing with, in this case two contrasting views of human government, views as different as night and day. The founding is our north star contrast.

Which brings us to the story of Babel in Genesis 11. Man in his hubris was building “a tower that reaches to the heavens,” and God understood if he let them continue, “then nothing they plan to do will be impossible for them.” The moral of the story is a simple one sinful human beings seem adept at forgetting; concentrations of power are bad. We can see throughout history how common aggrandizing power is, and how jealous man is of his power once he has it. Man not only wants to be God, he wants to be God over others. In previous ages this could be limited geographically. For example, the Roman Empire and its tyrannical rule could only extend as far as Roman physical power allowed it. In the 21st century, the aggrandizing is global, something we’ve come to call globalism, run by globalists. In the early 1990s George H.W. Bush called this a “new world order,” and many of us thought it was a good thing. We obviously hadn’t learned our lesson from Babel well enough. Then Trump. So much of the red pill times we live in come down to, then Trump. I still marvel, incredulously, that God would use a man I once so despised and thought so little of to do such remarkably good things.

I didn’t know he’d always been an America first populist-nationalist. His timing to run for office in 2015 was perfect because the spirit of Brexit, the nationalist referendum in Britain to leave the EU, was in the air. Globalists by definition hate the nation-state because it gets in the way of their plans to remake the world in their globalist image. They see themselves as an omnicompetent elite who know better than the people they seek to rule what is good for them, but a “rule by experts” always leads to Babel. The progressive movement in the early 1900s started this, and the Trump induced Covid hysteria ended it. With his reelection, for the first time in almost a hundred years, we’re seeing the potential dismantling of the administrative state. In other words, the pulling down of Babel brick by brick, and the left is powerless, both politically and culturally, to stop it. For a conservative like me since 1980 who’s been conned by Con Inc. ever since, this is stunning to behold.

Which brings me to the founding of America. America had been in historical development since Alfred the Great, specifically in the development in England of the rule of law, and the concept of political liberty. It was Christianity alone that allowed this to develop, not some fictional secular so-called Enlightenment. But it wasn’t only a development in Western intellectual history, but simultaneous boots on the ground governance. It developed through Magna Carta in 1215 and over time into the Glorious Revolution of 1688. Virginia had been settled in 1607, becoming the first enduring English colony in North America, and the English Puritans started fleeing religious persecution to the New World starting in the 1620s. Over the next hundred and fifty years waves of immigrants from all over the British Isles would come to America to establish a Christian country with the rights of Englishmen. In due course the unique character of this Christian people would slowly develop. Far from home they began carving out a living in a harsh land, and learned how to govern themselves which would eventually lead to a Declaration of Independence from the mother country, and the founding of the United States of America. As I was writing the book I read A Patriot’s History of the United States, and I highly suggest it. (Put up image) It was the cultural dynamics of this specific people in a specific geography at a specific time in history that God used to create the historically unique American character, and it is that character at our moment in history that gives us the possibility of a refounding.

The question confronting us in 2025 as we fight this war without bullets and bombs, is what exactly we are refounding. In the book I outline three broad perspectives on how the founding is defined:  Christian, secular, and cultural Marxism leftism. The latter has for the most part been defeated and discredited, so the debate is whether America was founded as a Christian or a secular nation. All of Americas founding generation believed Christianity was at the heart of liberty. Without it, they believed a self-governing republic was unsustainable. The quote on the Liberty Bell from Leviticus 25:10 reflects this, “Proclaim liberty throughout the land to all its inhabitants.” The Founders clearly didn’t see a contradiction between liberty and the Bible or Christianity. There wasn’t a secularist in the lot of them! They quoted the Bible, especially Deuteronomy, more than any other book or thinkers as they argued for this new country, believing it was specifically a Protestant Christian people that would enable it to succeed.

Unfortunately, in the increasingly secular 20th century, scholars began to claim most of America’s founders were Deists and the founding primarily secular. The reason they believed this is the same reason most conservatives and Christians today believe America is a secular nation: a Christian nation is not conducive to liberty. Or put the other way round, a Christian nation would be coercive and tyrannical. Only a pluralistic secular society, or so the thinking goes, can avoid the inevitable religious squabbles. I wrote a post last year with a title many conservatives and Christians would answer in the affirmative: Is a Christian Nation an Oxymoron?, a contradiction in terms. They believe this for two reasons. One is misunderstanding the nature of Christianity as the public religion of a nation, and the other is the secular myth of neutrality.

The Refounding of America
The question before us is this: Can America flourish as a secular nation, or was John Adams right when he declared:

Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.

The reason this is such a critical question is because America was the first government in the history of the world to be one of limited powers, or enumerated in a Constitutional word, over a self-governing people. The spirit of Babel in the heart of sinful human beings made this a rare thing indeed.

For our side of the political and culture football, i.e., we’re not Marxists, it seems all agree we want to get back to an America with a federal government of limited powers per the Constitution. We may be allies and agree on almost everything, or cobelligerents and only agree on some, but we can all agree the Constitution is our north star. At the turn of the 20th century the clouds of progressivism began to obscure the light of that star until the America of our founding became unrecognizable to us. To the progressive mind, the state ruled by “experts” is the essence of “democracy,” and submitting to their guidance like good little sheep for our own good is what America is all about. Then Trump.

In his first term Trump was naive and had no idea what he was up against. For decades Republicans have been the controlled opposition, part of the Uniparty, effectively no different than Democrats. Everyone, it seemed, was on the progressive statist bandwagon. For me, and I’m not alone, many became aware of what we came to call the deep state, but which we know now as the administrative state, the vast sweeping unelected bureaucracy that really runs Washington, DC, and how insidious it really is. The builders of Babel would have been jealous. Then God in his merciful providence and judgment gave the most radical progressives, leftists, Marxists, statists, their every heart’s desire: four years of almost absolute political and cultural power under puppet Joe Biden. They could not control themselves, and average Americans realized the contrast I mentioned previously, and Trump started looking mighty appealing to millions who previously wouldn’t be caught dead voting for the man.

Given almost 250 years have passed since that Declaration amid the massive changes of modernity, we understand America as re-founded will not look exactly like the 1776 or 1787 version, but it will have basic similarities. Instead of Babel and the concentration of power in globalist minded elites, state and local power, or federalism a la Jefferson, will gain the upper hand. It’s a simple matter of governmental tyranny in the hands of the few, or liberty in the hands of the many, what we call self-government. The latter is built into the American DNA, and the newly MAGA infused Republican Party may actually be able to lead Americans in that direction. Culturally, secularism will no longer be imposed by God hating elites, and Christianity will once again be respected as America’s founding religion. Babel will never sleep, but the journey of a thousand miles begins with one step, and in the year of our Lord 2025, we have taken it.

 

 

 

Buchanan, Conservative Pessimism, and the Resurrection of the West

Buchanan, Conservative Pessimism, and the Resurrection of the West

Jan 15, 2025 | America, Uncategorized

I recently finished Pat Buchanan’s, The Death of the West, and it’s been a fascinating experience reading Buchanan’s thoughts about the dying West with twenty-plus years in the rearview mirror. The book was published in 2002, and the Bush administration was in its early days. Given few of us are Bush fans anymore, you’ll be happy to know he was Hitler too. Of course the left now loves him, and the entire Bush-Cheney cabal, because the Uniparty RINOs are just Democrats in sheep’s clothing. The world Buchanan describes, the 90s and turn-of-the-century America, has all the dynamics of the 2020s, with some of the same faces and a few players no longer around, but all playing the same old game. This was before Obama came on the stage to, “fundamentally transform the United States of America,” which turned out to be leftist hubris on steroids. And remember, as the ancient Greeks taught us, hubris always leads to nemesis.

We conservatives, however, aren’t in danger of hubris because given we’ve been consistently losing for over half a century, pessimism is our gig. Buchanan strongly tends in that direction as well. For the time, however, he was appropriately pessimistic about the chances of the West, and specifically America, escaping the probable death coming upon it from the ascendence of the Marxist left. His subtitle says what will cause its demise, and it may sound familiar: “How Dying populations and Immigrant Invasions Imperil Our Country and Civilization.” Even for the most pessimistic conservative in the early 2000s, it would have been difficult to fathom the woke destruction heaped on America during the Biden administration, effectively Obama’s third term. What many pessimists failed to grasp is how the left’s success, spiking the football and going into woke overdrive, hubris, was key to their inevitable demise, the judgment of Nemesis. Americans saw something deeply unattractive and harmful in the woke ideology applied on a national level. No lies could paint over the destructive consequences inherent in leftist, culturally Marxist ideology.

Nobody could have predicted this was how the story would play out, America living through the worst woke nightmare until billionaire real estate mogul and reality TV star Donald Trump dashed in to save the day. If you would have told conservatives in the Bush years this was how God was going to save America, or at least give it a chance to be re-founded on true constitutional principles, you would have been laughed out of polite society. Many people of a conservative religious bent like me despised Donald Trump. I hated everything I thought he stood for. It took me a while to believe his candidacy wasn’t a joke, just some publicity stunt. Surely, Donald Trump is not a serious man, right? I’ll never forget the first debate with all 16 candidates in the 2016 Republican Primary when Trump ripped Bush and the Iraq War. It made me physically uncomfortable. You just don’t do that! Of course as we know now, there is a lot Trump does you just don’t do.

His entire first term, ending in the stolen election and J6, perfectly played into the pessimistic conservative perspective on the current culture war, including mine. From 1980 and Reagan’s election to January 6, 2021, I was a good little movement conservative, always living with a low grade pessimism as one might live with a low grade fever. You’re not sick but you don’t feel quite right. As a Christian conservative I’d gotten used to losing, to seeing the conservative movement, which I now affectionately call Con Inc., as an enabler of liberalism. A long time ago Con Inc. had stopped living up to Buckley’s ringing declaration when he founded National Review in 1955, to stand athwart history yelling, STOP!!! Over time it turned into, please slow down. The state got bigger and more intrusive, the culture more hostile to Christianity and coarse, and it seemed like that was just the way things would always be, a cultural Berlin Wall that would never come down.

God and the Resurrection of the West
Pat Buchanan may tend to pessimism, but he is not a doomer. I use that word to label the complainers I come across who are always predicting impending doom. They make Chicken Little look like Joel Osteen preaching your best life now. For them, the worst is yet to come. You might get that feeling reading Buchanan, but I’m happy to say his Catholic faith and Christian worldview keeps him from embracing his inner doomer. Toward the end of the book he says:

While none of us may live to see the promised land, victory is assured. For we have it on the highest authority that truth crushed shall rise again.

That is because He who is The Truth became a man in the person of Jesus of Nazareth, died on a Roman cross to redeem the world from the curse of sin, and rose again in victory over death. That is why truth will always ultimately prevail because truth is a person, God himself who created everything, is the ground of everything, and ultimately in control of everything. There are plenty of ups and downs, zigs and zags, two steps forward, three back, but ultimately the direction of history and ultimate destination are in His hands. This Christian view of history has implications for how we interpret events unfolding in front of us. My perceptions changing of our current moment in history as I fully embraced this are a good example of how this works. During Trump’s first term, God was slowly building into me something I didn’t realize until the stolen election, and especially J6, that God was giving us an opportunity to win in what seemed like perpetual losing. As the Sovereign Lord of history He can do that. I no longer saw losing because He was giving us an opportunity in the circumstances to win.

My book Going Back to Find the Way Forward was the result of this budding awareness. Up until Trump’s apparent ignominious end in January 2021, all I could see in losing was, well, losing. Then after the election by God’s grace and providence I found Steve Bannon’s War Room, back then on YouTube. As I always say, he got me out of the fetal position, and to mix metaphors talked me off the ledge. Bannon, a Catholic, taught me something I should have known all along, but my pessimism blinded me to: God has given us agency, meaning we can change things, and all it takes is, action, action, action! You can’t get much more biblical than that! Bannon is a nationalist populist, as am I now, adding the words Christian conservative to the description. Bannon is the leader of what he calls “The Grassroots Movement.”

For the four years after the stolen election, he would have average, every day Americans on his show exercising their agency to change things, people who take seriously their responsibility of living in a representative republic of “We the people.” Such activists are the greatest fear of the establishment, America’s cultural and political elite, left or right. They represent Americans in general who will not bow the knee to the supposed “experts.” How dare these people know what’s best for their own lives! Which brings us to the historical significance of Trump.

Trump as the Pivot Point in the Resurrection of the West
This would not have been on my bingo card prior to Trump coming down the escalator. It’s difficult, if not impossible, to imagine overcoming conservative inertia and the penchant for losing without Trump. Bannon calls them the controlled opposition, and that’s exactly what they are. As I said above, the conservative movement is an enabler of liberalism, but it’s worse than that. I’ve come to call them liberals in skirts. They are not conservative in any sense of the term, unless you say their job is conserving the liberal, progressive, statist gains of the last hundred plus years. The reason is because of something we now call the “post-World War II consensus” (PWC), a contentious phrase embraced by liberals, including good “conservatives” and despised by populist-nationalists. Against true conservatism, PWC is secularist, globalist, and corporatist. Throw in perpetual war and you have the perfect recipe for a culture war against America and anything truly conservative.

 

This elite dynamic is the way God ingeniously utilized Trump to undermine it. It’s incredible when you look back on how it all played out, and is still playing out. It wasn’t Trump, mind you, but the reaction to Trump that changed everything. The entire Uniparty elite was exposed for the grift it was. I was initially going to title the book, “Trump the Great Revealer” because that’s exactly what God has used him to do, to reveal the rot and spiritual darkness at the heart of American cultural and political life. Being a developer and builder, Trump turned out to be the guy who pulled the siding off the societal house revealing teaming throngs of termites underneath. God always seems to use unlikely people, as a read through redemptive history in the Bible makes abundantly clear, primarily to make it known: “’Not by might nor by power, but by my Spirit’ says the Lord Almighty’” (Zech. 4:6). He is the Sovereign Lord of history. This applies not only to the redemptive history revealed in Scripture, but to all history, which is redemptive, God’s plans working in time and among people to His ultimate glorious ends. God has used this most unlikely man to spark a Great Awakening.

This awakening will be nothing like the Great Awakenings of the past, or like the Billy Graham revivals of the 20th century with stadiums full of people walking down the isle to “Just as I Am.” It is happening on multiple levels, and is thus several great awakenings, not just in people’s religious lives. It is cultural, political, economic, health, as well as spiritual. It’s all spiritual anyway because the Christian faith and view of reality is all encompassing, as is any other faith be it secularism, Marxism-Communism, Hinduism, Islam, Buddhism, Paganism, Animism, whatever. The benefit of Christianity over the others is that it happens to be the ultimate truth about the nature of reality, and true human flourishing and blessing can only happen living according to that reality.

Looking at the political angle because that’s where God used Trump the Trigger, and as the pivot point to resurrect it, the perspective change from Con Inc. to Trump was night and day for me. The Uniparty was given its name because most Republicans were effectively Democrats, and “the establishment” has one overarching goal: sustaining their own power. That’s why many Republicans would talk a good game, get our votes and hopes up, and then inevitably cave to Democrats. Trump would have none of that. When he said during his first election we would win so much we would get tired of winning, that was truly something new under the sun for conservatives. Was winning that much even allowed?

Clear and Present Opportunities
If it wasn’t for Trump and his willingness to stand against the entire Uniparty establishment in Washington, it’s likely Buchanan’s pessimism about the West would likely have proved correct. Circa 2002, he laid out four “clear and present dangers” that will inevitably bring death if they are not addressed. Trump was the one God raised up to turn these threats into opportunities and give us a realistic chance of victory over three of them.

  1. Dying population.
  2. Mass immigration of people of different colors, creeds, and culture changing the character of the West forever.
  3. The rise to dominance of an anti-Western culture in the West, deeply hostile to its religions, traditions, and morality, or cultural Marxism, what we now call woke.
  4. The breakup of nations and the defection of ruling elites to a world government, thus the end of nations, or globalism.

The only thing Trump can’t do is to make people have more babies. That gets to the heart of the matter. As Buchanan says, the culture war is ultimately a religious war, and religious people have more babies than secular people. Christians are going to have to save the West from demographic doom by once again being obedient to God’s command to be fruitful and multiply.

As for 2-4, what happened since Trump came down the escalator and the left went crazy is something Buchanan could not have predicted then. In God’s providence, allowing the election to be stolen was the brilliant strategy of providence, God making it the fundamental factor in the process of exposing the left. With Trump apparently finally vanquished, especially after the deep state PSYOP of J6 when Trump and all of MAGA were finally discredited, they could now get on with Obama’s “fundamental transformation of America.” It turns out Americans are not so fond of Marxist fundamental transformations. And I don’t use the word Marxist frivolously. In the               , Marx and Engles identify four enemies of communism that must be abolished, and they perfectly align with the four “clear and present dangers” laid out by Buchanan. That is not a coincidence. They are:

  1. Private property
  2. The family
  3. The nation-state
  4. Religion, i.e., Christianity

Everything the Democrat Party of Obama-Biden stands for, Marx would applaud because their policies effectively abolish all four of these. The sexual revolution starting in the 60s effectively abolished the family and contributes to dying populations and demographic apocalypse. Again, Christians will have to lead the way in obedience to God’s command to be fruitful and multiply.

When Biden took office, he immediately opened the boarder which means the end of the nation-state, and effectively globalism. So called “free trade” and the dominance of major corporations is an assault on private property, as is global finance and fiat currency. Lastly, woke went into overdrive which is a direct assault on Christianity and the family, and you have the perfect Marxist storm for the death of the West. But therein lay our opportunity for those with eyes to see. The woke globalists were building a fragile papier-mâché Berlin Wall culture that would come tumbling down as the lies were being exposed. Everything the left does, however, is built on lies, and an empire of lies cannot stand. With Trump as enemy number one, the left completely lost their minds and normal Americans woke up and said we’ve had enough. Trump’s “loss” in 2020 was the best thing that could have happened to America and the West.

Not only have Americans, as Steve Bannon says, had a belly full of it, but Trump and the entire MAGA movement have learned a lot in these last four years. The entire apparatus of the administrative deep state is now exposed, and Trump has a mandate to take it on. The dream team he’s assembling will take no prisoners, but as we’ve seen, the establishment will not be handing out the welcome mat for the dissolution of their power. It will be hand-to-hand combat, sometimes like World War I trench warfare, an inch at a time, but the cover of darkness is no longer available to the swamp. Limiting the size and scope of government might for the first time in my life be a real possibility, but MAGA and true conservatives must be persistent, determined, and downright belligerent at times to make sure the ball moves forward, even if it’s two yards and a cloud of dust.

What’s most exciting for me is that Christianity is once again being seem as a positive force for human flourishing. This is especially true among the youngest generation who moved in a conservative direction in a most unexpected way in the election. Young people just don’t do that because, well, they’re young and stupid, and that’s what you do when you’re young. Not this generation. They’ve lived with the lies of secularism, grown up with woke and Covid, and they want nothing to do with it. It’s actually cool for the first time in my life for young people to be conservative! And Christians are able to be “loud and proud” about their faith, instead of homosexuals or feminists about their perversions. The Great Awakening is happening, and it is a thrilling time to be alive. And we’re only just getting started.

 

The Most Important Book of the 21st Century: “The Age of Entitlement”

The Most Important Book of the 21st Century: “The Age of Entitlement”

Jul 24, 2024 | America, Uncategorized

I heard several people reference how important a book The Age of Entitlement is, but I had no idea just how important I would come to see it. The title actually kept me from reading it for a while given I have a bunch of other books to read, and I thought I knew what it would be about. We live in an age when people feel entitled for a variety of reasons, and I figured it would be exploring this well-trod ground. The subtitle also gave me that impression, “America Since the Sixties.” Our culture that decade starting with the youth, the now much maligned baby boomers, pulled a collective tantrum, and I, me, mine, and me, myself, and I became the new Trinity American culture would come to worship. That preoccupation with the self was what I thought the book was about, but it’s much worse than that.

What is it about, and why do I think it is so important? And so important, I think it’s possibly the most important book of our troubled century? A turning point which had been brewing a long time in America was reached in 1964 with a concept and phrase most Americans see as unproblematic and positive, civil rights. Sixty years ago on July 2, the Civil Rights Act of 1964 became law against the votes of southern Democrats and with the help of Republicans. It was signed by the new president, Lyndon Johnson, and as soon as the ink dried everything in America had changed. Or it would shortly do so, and in ways that would in Barack Obama’s infamous 2008 declaration, fundamentally transform America. The means by which that transformation was unleashed that day was by a word now sacrosanct and unquestioned on the American left, diversity. The seeds of DEI, diversity, equity, and inclusion, and woke, was planted that day, and would become in due course a jungle of lies and dysfunction that would make America the unrecognizable mess it is in 2024.

Is the Constitution Dead? 

This video seems to be “controversial” in social media circles because it appears some people think the constitution that was bequeathed to us by America’s founders is not dead. It is impossible looking at current day America to conclude the constitution of 1787 is alive and well, unless you believe the constitution is playdough you shape into anything you want, which is exactly what it has become. The reason goes back to the progressives of the late 19th century. They came to believe the government of a   homogeneous population was no match for a modern industrial society. Woodrow Wilson saw the U.S. Constitution as an antiquated document for another time not up to the new realities of “modern government.” From Wilson would flow into the progressive bloodstream the idea of a “living constitution,” a playdough constitution if you will, which is of course no constitution at all.

Holding the firm conviction that with science and technology no problem seemed too big to overcome, progressives were determined to apply this mindset to government. Something called “scientific” management or planning by “experts” would become the rallying cry of the new century, and this mentality took over American government with the presidency of Wilson in 1913. As an academic, Wilson wrote a paper in 1887 arguing for “the science of administration,” which speaks to this rule by “experts.” This idea of ruling became the rage in the progressive era of the early twentieth century.

Because these “experts” knew so much better than everyone else, society, and thus people, progressives believed, could be molded from the top down. Law ceased to be what Scripture said it was, a means to restrain evil people and their wickedness (Romans 13), and became a mechanism to create a certain kind of society. Law was now a means of salvation from the depredations and vicissitudes of life; if Jesus isn’t your Savior, government will be. Slowly throughout the 20th century, law became a means to an end of the liberal vision of what a good society looked like. Man’s law was now salvation instead of the means to protect our liberties. Law, and it’s extension, administrative fiat, became a means of coercion to determine how we think and act, of course for our own good.

The founding generation, and why America became great in the first place, had a completely different notion of how a society became good. It wasn’t top down, created by government or law, but bottom up, from the people. They believed people could not be coerced to be good, virtuous citizens, but must have the liberty to choose to be good. Thus, the importance every single person of that generation placed on religion, specifically, Christianity. We could quote the founding generation all day long about the importance of “religion,” meaning Protestant biblical Christianity, but the most popular quotation to make the point comes from the second president of the United States, John Adams:

Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.

Again, and there is zero debate on this point, Adams was referring to the Christian religion. The syllogism writes itself:

  • America’s Constitution requires a moral and religious people.
  • America is no longer religious or moral.
  • America’s Constitution is dead.

But instead of the secular elite burning the old Constitution and writing a new one, they pulled a bait and switch. The Constitution had been tinkered with previously during the Civil War and the New Deal, but at least it could be argued it was the same animal, related to the original. What happened with the Civil Rights Law of 1964 gutted the original Constitution and replaced it with a fake, a counterfeit that bears very little resemblance to the original.

The New Constitution: Rule from the Top Down
The first section of Caldwell’s book is called, “The Revolutions of the 1960s.” Notice the plural. What exploded in the 1960s expressed itself in a variety of ways, the Kennedy assassination in November 1963 unleashing these forces in revolutionary ways. Not coming from a specifically Christian perspective, Caldwell doesn’t address the massive elephant in the room, secularism. None of these revolutions would have happened without its slow creeping rise throughout the 20th century. Ultimately, the only thing that will hold the state at bay is Almighty God revealed in the Old and New Testaments. When Jesus said, “render to Caesar the things that are Caesar’s, and to God the things that are God’s,” (Matt. 22:21), he revealed the only means to limit the state: God. No God, means unlimited state. Secularism, and the Pietism that enables it, means no God because a merely personal God stuck within the church walls and in the home is culturally in effect an invisible and powerless God.

The most obvious revolution was sexual, which caused everyone to miss the depth of the race revolution, specifically in civil rights law. This didn’t mean the two weren’t intimately connected, as we’ve seen in the last 10 years. First, race had to be established as the fundamental narrative of the American Republic. Since the 1960s, Caldwell writes, “slavery is at the center of Americans’ official history, with race the central concept in the country’s official self-understanding.” This was not the case before the 60s. After this, he writes, “the constitutional republic was something discussed as if it were a mere set of tools for resolving larger conflicts about race and human rights.” The radical nature of this change is lost on most Americans, few if any knowing how unpopular the race revolution was. The ideology of anti-racism became all-consuming for America’s liberal elites even as most Americans resisted the re-formation of their country in the name of race. They didn’t have a choice. Legally, this was going to happen, like it or not, and polls show they didn’t like it at all. They would be made to like it, or pay, literally and figuratively.

What the Civil Rights Act did was embolden and incentivize “bureaucrats, lawyers, intellectuals, and political agitators to become the ‘eyes and ears,’ and even foot soldiers, of civil rights enforcement.” This means, “more of the country’s institutions were brought under the act’s scrutiny. . . . with new bureaucracies to enforce them.” The obsession of American government was to mold the whole of society “around the ideology of anti-racism.” In due course it all took on an inevitable life of its own. This race consciousness was also pushed culturally through education and Hollywood; it could not be escaped. Out of this milieu inevitably grew the concept of diversity as an unquestioned moral good, which means any kind of sameness is a moral evil that must be eradicated, which is why Obama could say diversity is “one of our greatest strengths.” This would never stop with race, and soon the relations between men and women, and sex itself became a focus of the diversity police. The sexual revolution went well beyond sex and debauchery. Although nobody could conceive of such a thing at the time, once the Civil Rights Act was passed, two people of the same sex getting “married” was a foregone conclusion.

As I said above, these radical changes had been brewing for a while, through the latter 19th and for the entire 20th century. The entire capture of America (and the West) by secularism was inevitable once the poison of the Enlightenment was unleashed in the 17th century. That too like race consciousness was a top down affair, intellectuals slowly pushing God aside until they finally shoved him out the window in the 19th century. What was unique about the 20th century was adding the idea coming out of progressivism of “rule by experts,” also pushed by the intellectual classes. The plebians, the lower and middle classes, could never be allowed to run their own lives and obviously make a mess of them and society as well, so the “experts” would come to the rescue. America is no longer a self-governing republic, but a society with a total state.

Want Your Constitution Back? Vote for Donald Trump
The fact that Donald Trump is the only man standing between America and the tyranny of the deep state proves that God has a sense of humor. Like many others, I was not a fan of Trump and thought his candidacy was a joke. He had no more chance of winning the presidency than the man in the moon. As with scotch, Trump was an acquired taste for me but now I like both, a lot. As I say in Going Back to Find the Way Forward, Trump is the red pill that keeps on giving. Just recently we had the conviction that “was heard ‘round the world,” and there was a run on red pills. People who wouldn’t in a million years vote for Trump, are now voting for Trump. Thank you, deranged Marxist leftists, and your Democrat Party. 

In my book I explore how the history of England and the common law lead directly to America, something we don’t learn from so called, “public education.” We have to go back to Alfred the Great in the 9th century to see the beginnings of the American Republic. For almost a thousand years the “rights of Englishmen” Americas founding generation fought for was slowly developed from Magna Carta in 1215 to the Glorious Revolution of 1688. In God’s providence, the great Puritan migration to New England from the 1620s through the early 1640s set the predicate for America’s founding: no Pilgrims or Puritans, no America. Of course, secularists deny that and claim America was a result of the so called Enlightenment, but that is a very simplistic distortion. I deal with this in detail in the book, so if you want details on all this, you’ll have to get the book.

As Christianity and the church made its slow decline into irrelevance, so did the liberties of Americans. As government power increased, so did the independent self-governing nature of Americans slowly atrophy as well. This decline also went hand-in-hand with the rise of what we now call, “the administrative state,” the bureaucratic apparatus that effectively governs almost all of our lives. It is pernicious and evil, and destroys the possibility of true liberty. This is the reason Trump is the mortal enemy of the left: he is an existential threat to their power, and they love their power. Since they ditched truth a long time ago to embrace postmodernism and “the narrative,” i.e., whatever protects or extends their power, all they have is the aphrodisiac of power and the will to power.

Trump has the gift of rubbing the right people the wrong way, and what most terrifies his enemies is that no matter what they’ve thrown at him, they can’t stop him. They know he did not become the success he is, and the most well-known human being on earth by accident. He learns from his mistakes, and he made a lot in his first term. He was naïve and gullible, as hard as it is for Trump haters to imagine that. From all the people I’ve heard who interact with and know him, they say he’s a genuinely nice guy. But he’s also a killer who not only knows “the art of the deal,” but knows how to win. Winners always learn from their mistakes because they really like to win.

Trump came down the escalator at Trump Tower on Monday June 16, 2015. He was a gift to the “fake news” media that didn’t stop giving. They didn’t take him seriously until he defeated Hillary Clinton, something that should endear him to every American patriot forever. From that moment he had to be destroyed, and we’re all familiar with the unprecedented efforts by the Uniparty to do that. I say that because the Republicans we complicit, hating him almost as much as the Democrats. None of what happened to Trump would have happened without their full cooperation, even if much of it was done by omission. It was this that finally fully opened my eyes to the con in Con Inc., and why I no longer consider myself a conservative. As I explained recently, I am now a nationalist populist Christian conservative.

The lawfare, a word most of us had never heard of until Trump, is the final nail in the constitutional coffin. And in spite of Trump taking up all the oxygen in the room, Democrat lawfare is ubiquitous; abusing the law is how Democrats gain and maintain power. It has literally nothing to do with justice or Our DemocracyTM. Peter Navarro, who served in Trump’s White House, is serving a four-month prison sentence for something that nobody in the history of America ever has. Steve Bannon, another alum of the administration, and a primary driver of the MAGA movement, is now serving a similar four-month sentence for the same thing. They are trying to throw Rudy Giuliani in prison, among others, and the travesty of the J6 prosecution has destroyed the lives of many innocent patriotic Americans. And to top it off, many lawyers in Trump’s orbit, or who defend patriots, are threatened with a pernicious process to have them debarred. It’s so Orwellian it’s hard to believe it is all actually happening, but it is.

If you’ve ever read the Constitution, and especially the Bill of Rights, you’ll notice that these rights were specifically designed to limit the scope and power of the government, not the people. In fact, the Tenth Amendment says this specifically:

The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.

The Civil Rights Act basically took white out, pun intended, and made this amendment completely disappear. Ridding America of civil rights law is a long term project, but if we want a shot at getting our constitution back, it will only happen if Donald Trump is Elected in November.