Who Spiraled?
Today, NBC’s Chuck Todd of Meet the Press, asked Pennsylvania Senator, Pat Toomey, if the statesman ought to have known that Trump was spiraling towards inciting the mob attack on Congress last week. Toomey had made a good speech after the awful incident, but today, Toomey said that he could not have predicted Trump’s ‘spiraling’. The negative thing to me was that Toomey seemed to deny the negative context of Trump’s tenure.
Todd played several older snippets of Toomey, in which the Senator indicated Trump’s tweets were not a problem, but then played the good speech. I’m sometimes passive-aggressive in blaming others but have much sin of my own. What bothers me is that Toomey indicates Trump ‘spiraled’ recently. When I look at the events of the last months and years, it seems to me that Trump’s followers have spiraled under him.
Chuck Todd noted how Trump and some of his political allies have been speaking to Americans for the past four years. Looking at things from that perspective, last week’s Congressional horrors are somewhat unsurprising to me. Trump’s rhetoric indicates a consistently improper interpretation of what true strength is, and one that has likely geared many impressionable minds to insurrection. Things came to a head last Wednesday, but the process has been ongoing.
I don’t think Wednesday’s sedition (as I am calling it) was borne solely of Trump’s speech that day. I believe the anarchy has been seeded for years, here specifically under Trump’s ‘rule’ (since he seems to think himself a monarch); generally under a longtime, armed, racist and paranoid segment of the populus; and more broadly, under the curse of the fall which I believe we are all subject to in one way or another.
Whatever the case, our nation is somewhat in tatters, and spurred on by COVID-19, the world awaits a savior. I hope we are following the right one; there are perhaps false saviors, but as Strider and Greyhame have indicated, we ought not give specific utterance to certain things. As to our own sin, I pray for myself that it is vanquished, and insofar as it is a thing for you, the same.
