Posted on 10/21/2016 11:12:12 PM PDT by donna
Many of the people announcing an intention to vote for Donald Trump are adding a disclaimer to distance themselves from his unsavory comments or actions of the past. I’m not going to do that. In my view Donald Trump is today a far different and better man than the one who threw his hat in the ring at the start of this election cycle. I credit that to the unprecedented level of public vilification – the “borking” of Donald Trump – he has endured and appears to have been transformed by.
Whatever his worldview and the context of his past experience might have been, and regardless of the level of his sincerity at the beginning of his campaign, this man has made himself the spokesman for numerous positions and values that Christian conservatives (at great personal cost) have advocated for years. He hasn’t just pandered to us, he has walked in our shoes these past months, going far beyond the minimum necessary to align himself with us, and he has learned firsthand what we have endured at the hands of the Marxist elites. And through it all he hasn’t been intimidated into caving and pandering to the left like every other champion we’ve put our hopes in – including the otherwise stalwart Mike Pence in the Indiana RFRA debacle. Trump’s transformation is the best example of personal growth and maturity in a public figure that I’ve seen in my lifetime.
What more could Christian conservatives hope for than to watch a man of Trump’s wealth, power, acumen and courage discover the truth of the culture war and the utter corruption of the left by personal experience on his path to the White House?
(Excerpt) Read more at wnd.com ...
I can almost hear the right-wing NeverTrumper heads exploding from my chair and I love it.
GMTA.
You’re right. Incredible video. I think I felt a thrill go up my leg.
“illusion of democracy, while ensuring a steady cultural drift toward global socialism.”
Highlighting the term “Global Socialism” is very important. The differences between ‘Global Socialism’ and National Socialism are only on the Scale of the atrocities.
Very good - thanks for posting! Mini-Trump was even in it
I scanned it; the author is speculating on what Trump will do and comparing it to what Reagan did post-election.
Pop quiz time:
1) Which example of ability in my post do you disagree with?
2) Which of these two men would you have voted for in the 1976 primary?
Every word this man wrote rings with truth!
I am in tears!
I count it a privilege to vote for this courageous man, Donald Trump!
“I don’t believe he’s a better candidate, but is more suited for these times...as RR was for his.”
Yeah, that makes sense...Common sense. You have to know some American and World history to see how that works.
For those folks trashing this well reasoned article, try reading it first. You’d be amazed how that can elevate an argument above ad hominems up to the level of thoughtful analysis.
More like Sarah Palin. But that’s a hell of a compliment.
“I saw Trump on Hannity tonight and thought he had changed since the beginning of his run.”
I was thinking that he must be physically tired compared to a year ago but then I remembered that it was already well past 10 o’clock!
I try not to let the articles be 100% of the “narrative”, 100% of the time.
While I support Trump and will be voting for him next month, the idea that he is a better candidate than Reagan is ludicrous.
I think Trump is our best candidate since Reagan. He’s taken on the Republican Establishment very well and deals with terrorism just like Reagan dealt with communism. However, he should have been able to correct Hillary when she argued that tax cuts caused the economic meltdown or that the Heller decision was about toddlers and guns. Reagan on the other hand signed the 1986 amnesty bill and wasn’t great on terrorism, example the 1983 Beirut barracks bombings.
While I support Trump and will be voting for him next month, the idea that he is a better candidate than Reagan is ludicrous.<<<
I’ll tell you whether or not he’s better after seeing the results of his presidency.
The author make a strong case.
For over a year I’ve been saying that Trump could very well be the greatest president of modern times, even greater that RR.
Reagan chose Rino Bush vp.
Trump cose conservative Pence.
Reagan was amnesty, deport coward, ruined Calif.
Trump will build a wall.
Reagan acted.
Trump produced.
Nonsense.
Trump is a far, better communicator than Reagan.
The average person is fearful of an honest, open, real, plain spoken, doer. Reagan just acted, he was not a doer.
Trump has far worse enemies in global foreign powers.
Did God perhaps intentionally lead us to nominate a candidate with obvious flaws for a very important reason? Let me explain...... Trump is not smooth-talking, drop-dead gorgeous, perfectly-pious, all-knowing. He is just a good, honest man who loves this country and the constitution who was willing to use his wealth and talents to stand against the elites in power, to make America great again. If Trump was too perfect, we would have the tendency to “worship” him, to fall down before him and declare him our country’s “savior”, in essence to make him a “god”. In doing so we would be corrupting a good man, we would be forgetting who really saved us, we would be giving the praise and glory to a man-god rather than to God Himself.
I am reminded of how the Amish quilt makers always put an intentional flaw in their otherwise perfect quilts to remind themselves and others that only God is perfect. Isn’t it the story of mankind, how God takes the imperfect and uses us us anyway to do His work?
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