Is there any hope for America?
That’s a serious question. I bring it up because it sometimes seems that the answer is no. Our culture is an open sewer. Everywhere, economic and political liberty is under attack by powerful and sometimes secretive forces.
You can’t trust our elections. It’s hard to say how long our national elections have been fraudulent. My perception was that Democrats, with the help of the deep state and the media, tried mightily to rig the 2016 election in favor of Hillary Clinton. It was her turn, we were told. If I’m right about the 2016 election rigging, the rig just wasn’t big enough. It seems that Donald Trump, flaws and all, stole a march on the deep staters and globalists and upended an election that they had planned as a coronation for Hillary Clinton.
The 2020 election was an obvious farce featuring a past-his-prime Joe Biden, who spent most of the campaign season hiding in his basement and cackling Kamala Harris as his running mate. Yet somehow, this low-energy ticket managed to garner more votes than any other in American history. Color me skeptical.
The 2022 mid-term elections were also rigged to maintain a Democrat majority in the Senate and to limit the Democrats’ losses in the House.
Here in 2024, the deep state has come after Donald Trump even bigger. They’ve charged him with, I don’t know how many violations – I think at one point Trump was facing 90 some criminal charges – and attempted to assassinate him. When that didn’t work, they dropped the assassination attempt down the memory hole and continued the full-court press to denigrate him and his supporters in the media as we approach election day.
What are the odds that they will rig the election in 2024? I would say it’s 100%. No one has been punished for the fraud they’ve committed in the past few election cycles, so there’s every reason to believe they will do it again this cycle. The only people who have been punished for the 2020 election fraud were those who tried to expose it. Such is the present state of justice in our nation.
Lux Lucet 
https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/donald-trump-thanks-catholics-for-catholics-for-support-praises-groups-love-of-god-and-country/?utm_source=daily-canada-2024-09-07&utm_medium=email
Hey Steve, just wondering what you think of trump praising these catholics, and also what you think about him choosing a catholic running mate?
He has also allyed himself with RFK JR, who is also a catholic if im not mistaken.
Good question. I think the issues you raised with Trump praising Catholics and allying himself with Catholics underscores both the weakness of the Protestant church and the the problems with compromised political conservatism. Trump is a nominal Protestant and probably not saved. As such, I doubt he’s aware of the vast gulf that separates Biblical, Protestant doctrine from Rome’s false system. It’s probably all Christianity to him. And to him Christianity is subordinate to getting elected.
Regarding JD Vance and RFK Jr…I don’t trust JD Vance. He was a late convert to Catholicism having been raised in, I think, a fundamentalist, if somewhat dysfunctional, fundamentalist family. Vance has said, “My views on public policy and what the optimal state should look like are pretty aligned with Catholic social teaching. That was one of the things that drew me to the Catholic Church. I saw a real overlap between what I would like to see and what the Catholic Church would like to see.” https://www.theamericanconservative.com/j-d-vance-becomes-catholic/
Regarding RFK Jr., he’s done some good work, particularly on Covid and the dangers of the vax. But both he and Vance illustrate the problem that John Robbins notes comes with having Roman Catholics in positions of political power. Roman Catholics can believe in liberty and the Constitution, but they are also part of the Roman Church-State. As Robbins noted, when you put a Roman Catholic in a position of political power, you’re hoping that a Roman Catholic layman is willing to thumb his nose at the pope.
Vivek Ramaswamy is worth mentioning here as well since he is a close Trump associate and probably will play some role in a second Trump administration. While Vivek himself is not Catholic, he has Jesuit connections. He graduated from Jesuit St. Xavier High School in Cincinnati and still sits on the board of the school.
Regarding the weakness of Conservatism more broadly, conservative political theory is substantially Roman Catholic. John Robbins exposed this in his essay “Conservatism: An Autopsy” https://www.trinityfoundation.org/journal.php?id=115. Neo-conservatism, a powerful branch within conservatism, is principally Jewish. Neither Roman Catholicism nor Judaism is Christianity, but Christians flock to support both conservative and neo-conservative thinkers, organizations, and political candidates. The pro-life movement has drawn many Protestants to Rome, and Christian Zionism has caused many Protestants to support medieval Judaism. There is a distinctly Protestant, Biblical system of political economy that supports political and economic liberty. Before he signed the Declaration of Independence, Samuel Adams declared in a speech that the reign of political Protestantism has begun. This system of political Protestantism is embodied In the United States in the Constitution. It is that system that Protestants must defend.