Americans dodged a political bullet and have much to be thankful for this Holiday season. Providence has granted a reprieve to a nation that doesn’t deserve it. But that’s what God’s grace is — undeserved merit. As a nation, we’ve embraced the evils of liberalism, social Marxism, and post-modernist nihilism. We sacrifice our children to the modern Molech, placing their tender innocence on the reaching, red-hot arms of academics who immolate their personhood while stoking the furnace of gender identity ideology.
Infanticide continues to be a national disgrace. And the enemies of civil society assault the bedrock of our republic by destroying the definition of man and woman. A coven of ideologues driven mad by the illogic of their own doctrines, refuted by the combined total of all human experience. The gender dysphorics happily subject women to the grotesques of depraved men who force their leering stares into women’s bathrooms.
The government has been weaponized against its own citizens. Hurricane Helene victims left to languish; Trump supporters snubbed by woke FEMA bureaucrats. January 6th protestors still occupy jail cells in D.C., while the Biden crime family and the Clinton thug conglomerate remain unscathed. But, Biden’s Department of Justice raids Trump’s home on the thinnest tissue of pretext.
The Democrats responsible for Biden have set the Middle East aflame and are leading Europe into total war. But God, in His infinite wisdom and unfathomable mercy, has set a man in the breach.
I’m thankful for Donald Trump because he ends foreign policy weakness, appeasement, and chaos. Just as liberals make insane statements about gender identity, so they suffer from a pathological derangement regarding Trump’s record. It is irrefutable that no new wars began under Trump, and he achieved a stunning, historic peace in the Middle East.
Trump’s election also ensures that the abortion question is left to the States. For pro-life people like myself, it’s not a perfect resolution, but it places this issue close to the people and removes it from the purview of elitist politicians who spend their careers lurking inside the DC beltway.
I’m thankful for Trump because he’ll end federal government weaponization. Trump’s nomination of former Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi signals, unequivocally, the end of DOJ weaponization. Though she’s certain to face challenges, especially regarding a radicalized DOJ culture, Bondi is certainly up to the task. Moreover, whoever Trump appoints as FBI Director, the Bondi appointment will ensure close oversight of and support for sweeping FBI reforms.
Unlocking America’s vast energy resources through fracking and favorable “drill baby drill” policies will drastically reduce consumer prices while reigning in government spending will quell the inflation beast.
In many respects, Trump is analogous to the Biblical Judges. These were individuals who God raised to positions of leadership in ancient Israel to bring about deliverance from wicked authorities who were oppressing God’s people. Perhaps Samson most resembles Trump in our time. Trump is certainly a political wrecking ball, demolishing autocratic bureaucracy, and has been spectacularly delivered from the machinations of evil people who have sought his destruction. Though Trump’s power and charisma may not reside in his hair, I think it’s safe to say he wouldn’t be the exact iconic figure without his golden locks.
I’m also thankful for the timeless legacy of Rush Limbaugh. I’m reminded of the Biblical passage that illuminates the power of legacy. “…he being dead yet speaketh.” (Hebrews 11:4). Though Rush is gone, he continues to speak with a power that captivates. One Thanksgiving tradition held dear in our household, along with beginning the Christmas movie cycle with Christmas with the Cranks, is the playing of Rush’s The True Story of Thanksgiving monologue. In it, Rush cuts through all the layers of post-modernist tripe and breathes the life of truth into the great story of America’s first Thanksgiving—a recognition of God’s immediacy and sovereignty over the affairs of man.
Rush said, “The Real Story of Thanksgiving, going back to the very first early days of the Pilgrims arriving at Plymouth Rock, is that socialism failed.” That’s contrary to everything you’ve heard from the social Marxists in academe. That’s because the social Marxists are rabid about destroying the foundations of our civil liberties. Revolution doesn’t spring from contented hearts.
Rush tells us we simply cannot comprehend the privations those first forty pilgrims suffered. Our modern way of living simply renders us insensate to what they endured — all for the freedom to live by the Bible. “The Mayflower Compact derived ‘[f]rom the Bible’…And, because of the biblical precedents outlined in Scripture, they never doubted that their experiment would work.” Rush has a wealth of truth to impart. You simply must listen to the complete segment.
Most importantly, and the Pilgrims would undoubtedly agree, I’m thankful for the Gospel — “that Christ died for our sins in accordance with the Scriptures, that he was buried, that he was raised on the third day in accordance with the Scriptures.” (1 Corinthians 15:3,4) Apart from this Gospel, there would be no America, civil liberties, or concept of inalienable rights, which are none of the things we hold dear as a constitutional republic. The notion of “the pursuit of happiness” would not exist.
Every political principle that restrains a power-mad government springs from the truth of the Bible and its central focus, personal redemption through Christ, “That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved.” (Romans 10:9,10) Without spiritual liberty, there can be no temporal liberty. This is the central theme of Thanksgiving. And I’m deeply thankful for Christ’s sacrifice and for the sacrifices of pilgrims and patriots that have secured history’s longest-lived constitutional republic. Happy Thanksgiving!
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