Like many of my friends, I’m nervous and upset about what’s going to happen next in my country.
The newly-elected president has already put into practice some disastrously ugly policies which may or may not be enforceable, and seems hell-bent on stuffing the cabinet with a rogue’s gallery of people who are laughably unqualified for their professional appointments, and horrifically dishonorable in their private lives. As I said, I’m nervous. I’m upset.
Not all my Catholic friends feel this way! Lots of them are jubilant and are anticipating the next four years with glee and delight. The president has promised them all kinds of things they have long wished for—a return to greatness, a return to goodness. A return to strength, and a return to power.
So I am going to do something I haven’t attempted in many years—I’m going to address Trump supporters directly.
If you’re Christian, and you’re looking forward to the next four years, then this is for you. It’s not for people who voted against Trump. They will have struggles of their own, and I have other words to say to them.
But if you have ever once thought that I occasionally, even accidentally, hit upon a solid or useful idea, then please listen to what I have to say.
You are in danger. Read the rest of my latest for The Catholic Weekly.
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Wise words.
I was a little wary about the direction this was headed. I’m no Trump supporter, I voted the Solidarity party, but I didn’t want to read a vicious rant against him either.
Instead you gave us all a very tempered and fair warning to guard against the corruption of power. Thank you.
Wow… Being grateful that the word “woman” actually means female again isn’t the same as trusting princes or being delusionally power-drunk.
This article looks like another case of accepting the false, surface narrative of “the evil/stupid people who voted for Trump…”
Very well said