Donald Trump 2022: Forged in a Crucible of White Hot Fire

I first started writing a blog in 2009, after Barack Obama’s election. My first post, America’s Original Sin, addressed the then-nascent movement to disparage and denigrate America because the Founding Fathers didn’t have the foresight in 1787 to write a constitution that would dovetail with the mores of 21st-century snowflakes.

The title of my blog, Imperfect America, is followed by a quote attributed to the French philosopher, Voltaire: “Perfect is the enemy of the good.” Our nation is a billboard-sized testament to that adage. Rarely have we seen perfect, but we frequently see good. And that’s the problem with leftists… They want to sacrifice good for the fiction of perfection.

While today it’s all the rage to dwell on America’s failures, it’s far less celebrated to talk about her triumphs. Although the left has been demonizing America since the sixties, it was after Bush won in 2000 that this tactic started to stick. The cancer of hate really took off once Obama became president. On college campuses, in elementary schools, on nightly newscasts, and in papers across the country, we were incessantly told that America was racist, sexist, homophobic, and destroying the environment.

It was into this miasma that Donald Trump marched when he announced he was running for president. He saw the leftist cancer destroying the very foundations of freedom, opportunity, and prosperity while undermining America’s core civilization and setting the country up for a devastating collapse. And he willingly stepped into the breach to stop it.

The problem, however, was that rather than running as a Democrat, where all solutions come from an omnipotent central government, he was running as a Republican who sought to reduce government control and return power to Americans.

Donald Trump circa 2022 is still imperfect, but he’s been forged in a crucible of white-hot fire and has emerged even more focused than before on making America great. So, yes, while there may be brilliant lights on the horizon, I think I’ll take a pass and stick with the guy who got out of his Bentley and ran through a gauntlet of machine gun fire into the burning mess of Democrat America in order to save the eagle stuck inside.

Trump may tell off-color jokes and may not always be the best judge of character, but he can take the heat, and his North Star has always been prosperity and security for the American people. Given the literal evil the Democrats are seeking to impose on America, I’ll happily follow him into the fire.

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I saw this quote from the article: "...The title of my blog, Imperfect America, is followed by a quote attributed to the French philosopher, Voltaire: “Perfect is the enemy of the good.” Our nation is a billboard-sized testament to that adage. Rarely have we seen perfect, but we frequently see good. And that’s the problem with leftists… They want to sacrifice good for the fiction of perfection..."

Here is a cleavage point between Leftists and Conservatives.

Conservatives understand fully that humans are inherently flawed, perfection is not achievable, and that everything is essentially a work in progress, available to be improved over time as improvements in process, money, and knowledge become available. Conservatives believe that evil exists and is inherent in all of us, ready for the exploitation and expression of that evil. The Founders of this country well understood that concept, and designed as much as they could into the Constitution to take that human fallibility into account and protect against it.

Leftists do not see the world that way. They believe that humans are perfectable, and the only thing that stands in the way of that perfection is the correct human action. They really do believe this. They don't believe that evil exists, because they don't believe in God.

Leftists believe in the concept of Man without God. Whittaker Chambers had a timeless quote from his famous book "Witness" on this very subject:

"...It [Communism] is not new. It is, in fact, man's second oldest faith. Its promise was whispered in the first days of the Creation under the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil: "Ye shall be as gods." It is the great alternative faith of mankind. Like all great faiths, its force derives from a simple vision. Other ages have had great visions. They have always been different versions of the same vision: the vision of God and man's relationship to God. The Communist vision is the vision of Man without God.

It is the vision of man's mind displacing God as the creative intelligence of the world. It is the vision of man's liberated mind, by the sole force of its rational intelligence, redirecting man's destiny and reorganizing man's life and the world. It is the vision of man, once more the central figure of the Creation, not because God made man in his image, but because man's mind makes him the most intelligent of the animals. Copernicus and his successors displaced man as the central fact of the universe by proving that the earth was not the central star of the universe. Communism restores man to his sovereignty by the simple method of denying God..."

That is the nut of it. So in essence, Leftists believe humans are perfectable, and they can do just that, if given the time and money to do so. This is further complicated by the fact that since they believe they can be God, they can (if they actually believed in God) replicate creation, wash their hands, and be done with it.

However, given their propensity to act without thinking of it (something God could get away with, being God, but they, as fallible humans can never do without consequences) they are constantly surprised by "unexpected" results, usually culminating after they say 'That was unexpected' which is usually followed by "If we [get more money/have more time/better people implementing it 'this time'] we can achieve Utopia!"

And hey. They don't have any skin in the game. It isn't their money, time, or effort impementing it or cleaning up the ensuing crap-show.

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