Quick Comments in Time of Turmoil
The news has been coming too fast for commentary.
I think J.D. Vance is a great pick. Trump has a sense of thepublic mood, and I think he has picked well. With Vance, he is getting outahead of the rapidly building white working class backlash against DEI. That isbecoming the next big thing. Picking Rubio or Scott or Gabbard or some of theother possibles would have been conforming to the DEI agenda, if inadvertently.Not the message for this time.
Vance emerges from the same social space as the Canadiantruckers and the Dutch farmers. It is their time to roar. They will roar. Andit is better for everybody if their spokesmen are peacefully elected togovernment, before matters must be settled in the streets and in the fields.
Vance is also an accomplished writer. Although few seem torealize it, artistic talent, especially talent as a communicator, a writer oractor, is an important qualification for political leadership. I point to Reagan,Disraeli, Churchill, Trump himself, John Paul II. Vance could eventually becomea historic president. As Trump already is.
On a different but related matter, it is generally goodadvice, as he saying goes, ot to ascribe to malice what can be adequately accountedfor by incompetence. However, given the lengths the other side has visibly gonealready to prevent the re-election of Donald Trump, we have every reason tobelieve either the assassination attempt on Trump a couple of days go was aninside job, or else the lax security, at least, was deliberate.
God help us all if they try again and succeed. Trump’ssurvival this time looks like a genuine miracle. I would not be the first tosay that God seems to have a special cordon of protection around children,drunks, and the USA. George Washington survived an eerily similar near miss atthe first battle of the French and Indian Wars.
Are Americans God’s chosen people? It seems to me plausibleenough, on the same grounds that the Israelites were and are. The US Declarationof Independence, and the principles it represents, are a light unto thenations.
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