“I have heard many such things; Miserable comforters are you all!”
- Job 16:2
An old saying among military men is that generals are always ready to fight the last war. Perhaps the classic example of this is the French military leaders, who, having learned by experience in World War I that trench warfare and fixed fortifications were the way to fight, built the Maginot Line to defend the nation against a future attack from Germany.
From all accounts it was a well-built defensive line. A very impressive military installation it was. And not only that, according to Encyclopædia Britannica, the 800,000-man strong French army, “was thought at the time to be the most powerful in Europe.”
Unfortunately, as the French general staff again learned by experience in the Spring of 1940, in the intervening twenty of so years since the last war Germany had developed a new form of warfare, Blitzkrieg (lightning war). Blitzkrieg, sometimes called third generation warfare by military historians, is based on speed and movement. Instead of slugging it out toe to toe with the French in the trenches, the German army simply went around the Maginot Line through Belgium and down into the heart of France.
The Germans began their attack through Belgium on May 10, 1940. France surrendered just six weeks later on June 22. If it were a boxing match, you’d call it a first-round knockout.
The French generals, who were wonderfully prepared to fight World War I-style trench warfare, did not anticipate Germany’s new tactics and thus failed to defend their people. In France’s hour of need, they were miserable comforters.
In the view of this author, Republican and Evangelical leaders are making a similar mistake today. Thinking that the country is still fighting the civil rights battles of the 1950’s and 1960’s, they seem to think that white racism is the root of all evil in America today. They can’t wait to denounce white racism, as if there were a Klansman waiting behind every bush, when the truth of the matter is that it is white people, who, more often than not, are the victims of racist rhetoric, racist polices and racially motivated violence, not the perpetrators of it.
And yet, if you listen to leading Republican and Evangelical voices, one could easily believe they’ve all internalized the accusation Hillary Clinton leveled at Trump voters 2016 and really truly believe that their party and their congregations are made up of nothing but a bunch of irredeemably deplorable racists, sexists and homophobes, who, not only are being justly punished by the righteous and terrible swift swords of Black Lives Matter and Antifa, but that they have not yet received from the Lord’s hands double for all their sins. The beatings will continue until moral improves. This seems to be the motto of those in positions of authority, both in the state and in the church.
Not only do Republican and conservative Protestant spokesmen fail to defend their own people who are being subjected to the most vicious psychological, spiritual and even physical attacks I’ve ever seen in this country, not only do they fail to stand up and speak up and refute the slanders of the Marxist mobs howling for the destruction of the country, the very country that was principally built by the people they claim to represent, but these same Republican and Evangelical leaders actually pile on, joining with the enemies of their own people in beating down their congregations and political base.
Miserable comforters are they all. Miserable! Inexcusably, utterly miserable.
Lux Lucet 
Yeah, “anti-white racism” isn’t a thing. It’s impossible to be racist against “white people” because there is no such thing as a white race, it’s just a label that racists have historically applied to themselves to create an in-group to use to oppress minorities. It’s also why the definition of who is “white” has changed (Irish, Italians, Polish, etc.) over the years.
Some scholars, very often people who are hostile to whites, argue that the white race doesn’t exist, saying that it’s a social construct.
So let’s go with that line of thinking for a moment. If the white race is a social construct, so too is the black race likewise a social construct. Therefore, there can be no anti-black racism either, because the black race doesn’t exist anymore than does the white race. But the folks who say the white race doesn’t exist do not, at least in my experience, ever say that the black race doesn’t exist, because that would be, well, racist. Furthermore, the Black Lives Matter crowd certainly doesn’t act as if they think there’s no such thing as the white race, for, at least in their opinion, the white race is responsible for all the evil in the world and all the bad things that ever have, currently are, or ever will happen to black people. For that reason, the BLM crowd argues, white people must pay reparations to black persons of color. But if there’s no such thing as the white race and no such thing as the black race, then there’s no such thing as an actual basis for BLM to demand race-based reparations either. Their argument collapses.
But there’s another angle to the race issue as well. If white people can be punished as a group – for example, reparations and affirmative action quotas – it is inconsistent to say that they cannot suffer as a group from anti-white racism. It’s as if people say, on one hand, there’s no such thing as a the white race when white people are suffering harm, but there is such a thing as the white race when it comes to doling out punishment for wrongs committed 150 years ago. Quite obviously, these two positions are logically inconsistent and, therefore, any argument based upon them cannot stand.
Steve, Sad to say this, but conservative 1st Vatican Catholics are doing more to expose Francis and all this ungodly chaos going on than Protestants are. In fact, one survey stated that some 60% of Baptist were somewhat supportive of Francis. Welcome to the Apostasy. Of course, I question if another Trent will come in the back door behind their efforts to remove the current Pope. You are right, Republicans, excluding Ron Paul and Tom Cotton, and a very few, have sold out to global outsourcing. As for our Protestant leaders – we have NO Luther, Calvin, Rutherford, nor Knox. Come Lord Jesus. Tommy