American Idol
I don't idolize Trump, but he is a damn sight better than President Weekend at Bernie's.
I keep hearing that Trump supporters are a MAGA cult and that we have "idolized" the man. Many are claiming they just can't bring themselves to vote for someone as reprehensible as Donnie.
I counsel those people that they better be careful about that standard.
I hear the "idolize" thing all the time, but I don't see it, at least not as much as Obama was idolized, for example.
For goodness's' sake, Obama was treated like a god with all the hagiography created around him. People called him a "Lightbringer" and spoke of him in spiritual terms. He and King Canute controlled the tides in those days.
Bill Clinton was on the receiving end of oral sex in the Oval Office and as a result we were told the standard was not what (or who) a president did in his personal life, it was about what kind of job he was doing. I can remember when Nina Burleigh, Time Magazine's White House correspondent during the Clinton years, said she would be "happy to give [Bill Clinton] a blowjob just to thank him for keeping abortion legal."
Seems pretty much like idolization to me.
Most people who support Trump are not enamored of the man but are hopeful of the job he will do if reelected as compared to this dried up corpse who shuffles around the White House these days eating ice cream and spending his few waking hours finding new ways to, as Obama said, "f*ck things up."
Back in 2019, I answered the question of “You claim to be a Christian, how can you support someone like Donald Trump?”
Well, it’s like this – we conservatives and Christians know what the Democrats would do to us if given the chance. We know that with them, we’re always one wedding cake away from sensitivity training and reeducation camps. We’ve lost so much cultural and political influence that we can’t always fight for ourselves because the fights aren’t fair anymore, they are always stacked against us from the outset. The media, the institutions and usually government (especially the judiciary) always gang up on us.
So, we did what every weaker army has done in history.
We hired a mercenary.
Sure, Trump doesn’t necessarily believe what we believe, and he isn’t our idea of a conservative – and he has an interesting past – but he came to us and offered to be our champion, someone who could and would put together an army to fight to the death to preserve our beliefs and to defend conservativism.
He would go to war under our flag.
Trump is our Sir John Hawkwood.
Besides having the coolest name straight out of a sword and sorcery novel, Hawkwood was an Englishman and a knight who served in the English army during the Hundred Years’ War and commanded the White Company, the most elite mercenary army in all of 14th century Italy.
That’s how we can support Trump.
He is not of us, but he is for us.
Here in 2024, I still believe that.
Elsewhere yesterday, I shared a piece I wrote last year about "wars and rumors of wars." As if to make for me the point I made here yesterday regarding Trump idolization/worship, someone responded, literally inserting Trump into Revelation, intimating the following:
"The four horsemen road overhead with Trump’s first 3 1/2 years until he gave his throne to the two false witnesses (Fauci & Berk) who unleashed plague variants every time they wished to continue lockdowns, whenever they pleased for 3 1/2 years
The second horsemen road over while Trump was making war on a beast virus that ‘was not’ and Congress was making war on him with two impeachments"
Another "Amen!" from me.
Thank you for all you do.