I've been thinking....

Me | January 19, 2025 | Hildy

[Hildy]

I was glued to the TV today to watch this transformation of Washington and I was thinking that, if we believe that God's hands are on DJT (like I do), Trump not winning in 2020 was probably the best thing that could have happened in the long run. We were in the middle of COVID and everyone was mad. The Country was a mess. Trump probably could not have done in the first two years the things he will do now. He is older, wiser knows the Democrat tricks and has much more support than he did then. The Country needed to see what Democrat rule does and they did not like it. Am I wrong?

[Flaming Conservative]

Agree.

[definitelynotaliberal]

I unreservedly believe that you’re right. The cost was SO high, but it turns out that God’s timing was just right.

If I were - heaven forfend - a Democrat, I would look at all that has happened over the last 2 years and conclude, “Well, it’s quite obvious that no weapon we formed against him has prospered. Perhaps I’ll just align myself w/God’s wishes, shut my yap and quit my claptrap.” But I don’t think they’re going to quit. Let them continue to sow the wind. We know how this concludes.

[Allegra]

If you’re wrong, so are a lot of us. It occurred to me during this past spring/summer’s campaign that it just might be a blessing that the horrors of 2020 happened.

I think a lot of people came to an awakening over these past five years and now we can truly heal ourselves and our nation.

We truly serve an awesome God.

Thank you for posting this.

[Repealthe17thAmendment]

All that happened in the 2020 election and afterwards revealed a lot of the sinister workings in the government. As painful as it was to see that, it was important for everyone to see.

[littlehouse36]

2020 revealed all the ugly cracks and bugs in our elections. Who but Trump voters would have had the impetus to improve the process?

My own state of GA went from a 5 day counting saga (2020) to having the results in by midnight (2024).

I remain in awe of the Almighty’s handiwork.

[ALASKA]

We need to make sure he has security on his security. The Secret Service didn’t fail to protect DT, it failed to kill him. I doubt that will stop.

[DIRTYSECRET]

Trump was POTUS just 4 years ago so that means the younger generation knows the difference between the 2 parties and will be less likely to forget the difference between the 2. A good omen for 2028.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

I cannot disagree with your thesis.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

“the crazies are still out there”

The reports today say that every sort of subversive, commie, leftist, anarchist organization in the country will be there tomorrow to raise hell and start “Resist Part 2.” I hope that does not come to pass.

One thing that would make this inauguration even sweeter would be the DC Police standing ready to let loose on the crazies with fire hoses, dogs and horses ready.

[Hildy]

My State of Arizona, where I am A State Senator, will have a Republican Governor in 2026. Unless we completely screw up, it will be and it will be glorious!

[Angelino97]

The cost of him being ousted in 2020 is millions of illegals, along with the financial drain and their crime — lives lost to murders.

I doubt he’ll deport most of them. So the cost might be greater than any benefit.

[pollywog]

If I were - heaven forfend - a Democrat, I would look at all that has happened over the last 2 years and conclude, “Well, it’s quite obvious that no weapon we formed against him has prospered. Perhaps I’ll just align myself w/God’s wishes, shut my yap and quit my claptrap.” But I don’t think they’re going to quit. Let them continue to sow the wind. We know how this concludes.

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WELL said!!!!

[dforest]

Nope, you are not wrong. These things you say are very true.

[butterdezillion]

“You meant it for harm, but God meant it for good, so that many lives will be saved.”

Joseph, to his brothers who sold him into slavery in Egypt.

God works all things together for good for those who love him, who are called according to His purpose.

This is especially appropriate to remember on Life Sunday. We have a marvelous confidence that no matter what is allowed to come into our life, God knows what He is doing and is working to use even bad things to bring about good.

I’ve been praying for a long time, that God would intervene to save us in the midst of our own inability to save ourselves. He is the only One who can bring righteousness and justice.

Today’s Old Testament lesson was the prophecy about a son being born to us. “Of the increase of His government and of peace there will be no end.” His is the government we WANT to see increase, because it is justice, peace, and life. May HE bring about peace and justice in our land.

[rlmorel]

I think that is a fine interpretation of these times as any, Hilda.

[NCVA]

I’ve been thinking the same thing. A lot of people have woken up over the past 4 years. God does work in mysterious ways.

[mairdie]

The DC police might be more likely to let loose on US rather than the crazies. I just trust that the changeover at noon is going to result in a changeover of authority over who controls the protestors. We stand a chance if it’s our people doing crowd control. I don’t trust the situation if it’s the people under Democratic DC Control.

I hadn’t seen anything about Resist Part 2. Chills down my back. I just want to know he’s safe. Because if he’s safe, so are we.

[P8riot]

I find it interesting, and somewhat disturbing, that many people believe that God only works in a person's life if that person appears to be good. Throughout biblical history it is clear that God works in the lives of both evil and good people to bring about His will.

We are reminded by our Lord in Matthew 5:45 that

. . . He makes his sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust.

and in Romans 5:8

. . . but God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.

[laplata]

I agree with you 100%.

[Political Junkie Too]

Am I wrong?

Yes, you're wrong.

Everyone is euphoric at the return of President Trump. Listening to the "everyday Americans" being interviewed on the street, the implied but unspoken sentiment that I see is a belief that Trump is finally getting what he won in 2020 but was stolen from him.

These feelings are not coming from a sense of "we told you so, and now we get a chance to prove it," it's coming from the belief that Trump is finally getting what was taken from him, and EVERYONE had a part in making it "too big to rig."

So, to respond to the thought of "Trump not winning in 2020 was probably the best thing that could have happened in the long run," to me, is to accept the cost of that belief.

It cost us:

• Thirteen soldiers at Abbey Gate in Afghanistan, plus countless Americans left behind; the poor Afghan civilians who clung to the departing plane and fell to their deaths; the unsuspecting humanitarian aid worker and his family who were hastily targeted as the perpetrators of the bombing; and anyone else who was impacted by the American weapons that were abandoned to the Taliban.

• A tripling of the prices of everyday staples at the grocery store.

• An increase in mortgage rates that made the cost of buying a home prohibitive for many Americans.

• Our children losing two years of schooling?

• Possibly 10 million foreign invaders hiding out in our country.

• War in the Ukraine.

• The 10/7 attack on Israel by Hamas, the atrocities perpetrated on babies and women, and the taking of at least 250 hostages by Hamas.

• The loss of the strategic Bagram Air Force Base in Afghanistan.

• Americans forced to inject themselves with an experimental drug that did none of the things they were told it would do.

• The weaponization of all of the bureaucracies of our government against the opponents of the Democrats.

• The loss of trust in our basic institutions.

• The loss of respect from the other nations of the world.

The real question is: What would be happening now if President Trump was concluding his second term?

• Would we be watching the inauguration of President-Elect Pence?

• Would someone like Ron DeSantis have challenged Pence and won the nomination and then the election? Nikki Haley? Mike Pompeo? Hillary? Someone else?

• What would the impacts of COVID-19 have been? Still a mandate? School closures? Flooding the economy with stimulus money in the name of "paycheck protection?" Moratoriums on delinquency and squatters rights?

• Would the Middle East Abraham Accords have continued to move forward, increasing the number of countries that signed on to regional peace and economic cooperation?

• Would Iran have continued to be contained and starved of money?

• Would tariffs against Russia and China have worked? Would China have become more cooperative with the United States and the world?

However a hypothetical 2025 inauguration would have taken place, I must believe that it would be starting from a much better place than what President Trump is inheriting now. I'm glad that he's taking over to do what he can to correct what's been done, but it will still be four steps backwards and three steps forward.

We could have had four more steps forward and perhaps another four from here, without all the tragedy that Biden inflicted on us all.

I'm sorry, but I'm not in the camp of "we have to lose to win." The cost of losing so Trump could win even more was too great. I'm happy that he won, but I can't say that it is better than if he had taken office again in 2020.

-PJ