Posted on 01/22/2017 6:29:56 PM PST by drewh
The protagonists of American popular culture are outsiders with scant patience for authority. The Western heroes invented and Louis L’Amour and portrayed by John Wayne, and their urban cousins – the private detectives of Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler they have an inviolable inner code.
They don’t betray their friends and they don’t exploit the weak. They don’t aspire to entry into the elite, and they don’t apologize for their vulgarity.
They come in comic form for example Huckleberry Finn, or nastily serious, like William Munny in Clint Eastwood’s Unforgiven, or a bit of both in Hammett’s wise-cracking angel of vengeance.
Americans are pilgrims. We invented ourselves as a nation out of the Protestant imagination, and we must journey towards a goal that we never will reach. The goal — salvation — always awaits just beyond the horizon.
Whether and in what way Trump is a Christian is far less important than the fact that he is instantly recognizable as the protagonist in a Christian drama: the lone avenger who stands up to the depraved powers of the world and calls them out for combat.
Donald Trump could be a character in a Frank Capra film. That simply is the kind of people we Americans are, or rather the sort of people we have become at two and a half centuries’ distance from our Revolution.
We never have succeeded in training an elite. Whenever an American elite finds itself in power it chokes on its own arrogance. I cheered Mr. Trump to victory in the last election out of disgust for the do-gooders and world-fixers of both the Republican and Democratic mainstreams.
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Let’s see how Trump is as a leader.
He seems to be ALONE in saying America needs to return to our former greatness.
Everyone is all into globalism. Except of course, for the rest of the world. Only America is selling out.
Trump finally stopped that. He is for our military, for American strength, for American sovereignty, and against all of the liberal strongholds which seem to be strangling America.
All of these things are wonderful.
But he hasn’t yet SHOWN us, he will lead in the way he said he would.
I have supported Trump forever. Like, since before he even announced his candidacy.
But he is elected now.
He is our President now.
Tomorrow, work begins.
America’s finest. A hard-working citizen. Owes nobody. Knocked out the Clinton Crime Syndicate, the Bush Cabal and the propagandists in 1 election cycle. One of the greatest Americans in the last 200 years.
WOOOHOOOO President Donald J. Trump. Thank you, sir.
ABSOLUTELY!
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The article is perceptive and excellent. Thanks for posting.
Trump is Josey Wales.
I can see him preparing to spit that wad of tobacco juice, noticing the presence of a lady, and swallowing it.
Bingo. He's just like that; always has been.
Great line. Anyone got that picture of Trump holding an eagle on the field of battle?
Such a perfect description of Trump.
Thanks!
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