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Concession

2016/2020

In 2016 Donald Trump won the presidential election against Hillary Clinton and she did not concede the election.  You say, “Oh she did.  She made a statement.”  Sure.  Hillary said something like all the lies characteristic of the Clintons, what turned since into its own vocabulary word:  Clintonesque.  She lied, what some might call “parsing words.”

Hillary Clinton, even before she lost, cooked up with the rest of the establishment, but led by her, the Russia conspiracy against Trump that impeded his presidency.  She preyed on Trump’s inexperience in Washington, DC.  John Durham in his special counsel investigation of the Russia hoax came to the conclusion

that there was no basis to immediately launch a full-fledged investigation against Donald Trump; that the FBI failed to follow up on intelligence reports that Hillary Clinton had approved a scheme to manufacture the Russia hoax and that her campaign funded opposition research to supply to the FBI and media with the false narrative; and that FBI leaders willingly subverted FBI policy, quashed investigations into Clinton’s potential violations of the law, and more.

Disqualification and a Fake Issue

That wasn’t the only signification that Hillary Clinton and the establishment did not concede the election.  They treated his presidency as ineligible or disqualified and didn’t ever accept the results.  The unelected administrative state cooperated with the Democrat Party in dozens of different ways to defy the electoral victory of President Donald Trump.  As an example, James Comey, the head of the FBI under President Barack Obama, leaked sensitive information about President Donald Trump to the press that precipitated the appointment of the Robert Mueller special counsel investigation.

Many arguing against Trump point to his unwillingness to concede.  I don’t hear anything about the other side not conceding.  Both Clinton and Trump may not have conceded either in word or action, but Clinton didn’t inhabit the White House in 2016 nor Trump in 2020.  It’s ultimately a fake issue.  According to my own assessment, Trump’s challenge of the 2020 election did not compare to the seriousness of what Clinton did in 2016 and following, helped along by President Obama spying on the Trump campaign.

My History

I have voted in all the presidential elections since 1980.  Living in Wisconsin during my Freshmen year in College, I voted for Ronald Reagan in 80 and the same in 84.  When I moved to California, I started voting there first for George H.W. Bush in 88, same in 92, Bob Dole in 96, George W. Bush in 2000, same in 2004, John McCain in 2008, Mitt Romney in 2012, Trump in 2016, and same in 2020.

This year I’ll vote Trump again in the state of Indiana in 2024.  It wasn’t until 1976 that I really started considering presidential elections with the Gerald Ford and Jimmy Carter election.  Even though I was alive for the 1968 and 1972 elections, I don’t remember them at all.  The first political event I remember was Watergate, seeing it in black and White on our old tube television set.  This will be my twelfth presidential election.

Every presidential election year from 1992 to 2020 I taught United States government in our high school.  Five days a week I came into government class and commented on the election until it occurred the first Tuesday in November.  I also taught jr. high history.  The United States history curriculum for jr. high also included some government.  The class read and answered questions about the United States Constitution.

Endorsement

Those for whom I voted president in the general election won six out of eleven times.  This year could become seven.  When Trump won in 2016, I wasn’t expecting it.  I didn’t think he would win in 2020.  Will he win this year?  For the first time, I think he will.  It’s hard to tell by the polls.  Maybe some of you reading know about the quiet Trump voters.  This affected the polls in 2016 and 2020.  The pollsters and the media got the Democrat vote percentage about right.  They underestimated Trump’s percentage both times.  Maybe you’ve seen this data.

Nothing gets more negative commentary on this blog than a positive mention of President Donald Trump.  Even if I intimate something positive about Trump without mentioning his name, I get a nasty comment.  What does this do for or to me?  Nothing.  Easily, Trump gets far more foul comments than all the other subjects combined.  Apparently these comments come from those who don’t like Trump’s meanness and nastiness.

The only hope for anything close to a Christian worldview is Trump.  I’m not going to tick off all the reasons.  They should be obvious.  If they’re not, I don’t think there is much I can write here today that will persuade you the reader, which you haven’t already heard, watched, or read.

Watching a Slow Motion Car Crash: 2023-2024 United States

Preach the Gospel

My wife and I live in a mobile home in small town rural Indiana, evangelizing Decatur County as well as a 25 minute radius of our church building.  I preach the gospel almost every day to someone.  We do discipleship, Bible studies, and meet for church.  Her and I exist in our own little bubble.  We walk twice a day by fields of beans, corn, and wheat.

I do think that the work of our church here transcends other contemporary narratives. We keep our eye on the ball, staying focused on the real problem in the world and its actual solution.  It glorifies God, gives Him pleasure.  Someone might say our little lives here epitomize one of many micronarratives within a larger macro one.  I could argue, however, that we represent the macro and the popular larger narrative equals the micro.  The gospel overshadows politics or what occurs to a nation in a window of history.

No one in the future kingdom of Christ and then the eternal state will look back and think that the American government was the main theme.  Neither will anyone in that kingdom consider the decline of the United States to be the major issue of that day.  The way back to Paradise, lost in the Fall, comes through Jesus Christ.

Slow Motion Car Crash

As a backdrop to serving God in a church, I observe now a slow motion car crash.  Two cars now careen toward each other and a future wreck.  Maybe I could use another metaphor, like the trajectory of an asteroid in the path of earth on schedule to collide in November of 2024.  It might not matter what your side of the political spectrum, you see this crash coming too.

I don’t write to say, “You read it here first.”  You could have read it somewhere else first.  However, I haven’t read yet about the collision of which I explain and describe.  When you read it somewhere else, you might say, I read it first at What Is Truth.  Who cares, really?  As I write about this here, first or last, you might anticipate this inevitable demolition derby.

Trump

Donald Trump leads the polls on the Republican side.  He embodies a large faction of the country, bigger than any single cohesive body of people.  That car continues rolling forward at a larger than ever fifty plus percent of Republican voters.  Even in Iowa and New Hampshire he dominates his opposition right now 16 months before the next presidential election.

As Trump moves along his path, so do four different legal prosecutions against him, all very suspect in nature, especially in comparison to others (I understand this will trigger a portion of the readers).  Trump voters saw the Russia hoax impeachment.  They also witnessed the Zelensky phone call impeachment.  The government spied on his campaign.  The Clinton campaign paid for the fabricated Steele dossier used for a FISA warrant.  The FBI lied about it and then covered it up.  And all that is less than half of everything Trump supporters know.

Still, Trump enemies continue to use the legal system to impede or stop Trump, what people call weaponization of government.  Every prosecution looks shady, questionable, like political persecution.  The present administration targets its number one political enemy.  Nevertheless, the Trump car rumbles down the road, even gaining in momentum the more legal woes he faces.

Biden

Joe Biden comes from the other direction.  Even though he couldn’t fill an average sized local gymnasium to see him, he tallied the most votes ever in 2020.  Zuckerbucks influenced local election offices all over the country.  Courts changed laws to favor ballot harvesting with little to no voter identification.  Social media giants censored news unfavorable to the Democrat.  In addition, lies, lies, lies, lies, and more lies.

The Biden car and the Trump car head toward each other.  They’re moving fast, but they’re so far away, that it’s like watching from thirty thousand feet.  The cars move at an imperceptible pace, yet moving on an identical line.

Criminal prosecution hovers around Joe Biden.  Massive corruption on an unprecedented scale looks obvious.  It seems like no repercussions for him.  Like the Clintons, nothing will happen more than verbiage.

A crash looks inevitable.  No one knows what will happen in 2023-24.  Will they prosecute Trump and try to put him behind bars?  Might the Bidens skate again or face their comeuppance?  Could a third party enter the race?

The Great American Divorce

Many more questions remain.  What would Trump supporters do if this government convicted him?  Would they accept that verdict?  With the way the progressives use the system like a banana republic, will people stand by and let this happen?  A large percentage of United States citizens see their government as dirty.  Those people are waiting and watching right now from that thirty-thousand feet.  A big gap separates the two biggest factions in the country.  The two sides are irreconcilable.  One of them is especially unhappy.

The country doesn’t neatly divide like the north and the south in 1860.  Both factions live in the same states.  Red citizens are fleeing blue states to red ones.  A few years ago some started calling this, the great American divorce (here and here) or American secession (here and here).  Historian Victor Davis Hanson says we’re on the verge of our French Revolution.  He also called it, “The Impending Thermidor Reaction in Jacobin America.”

The Only Remedy

To go back to the way I began this essay, I call this slow motion car crash just a backdrop to the most important.  The belief and practice of an individual true church surpasses the miserable condition of the nation.  It seems obvious a future collision is coming.  No one knows the outcome of this monumental head-on crash, but scripture says the remedy is still the same, the gospel.

Elevation of the gospel starts with the church.  Turn and look to the message of the cross as the prescription.  Judgment must begin in the house of God.

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  • Kent Brandenburg
  • Thomas Ross

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