He may be YOUR jerk, but he most definitely is not MY jerk, anymore than I claimed Obama as MY president.
Obama was an illegal POTUS. Trump is not. Trump was Constitutionally elected--in fact, elected against all odds (e.g., in spite of massive cheating by Obama and HRC). Some would even say that Trump's defeat of HRC was miraculous. (I would qualify such a statement by saying that Trump's victory was merely a matter of an impressive Providence--but even that perspective gives credit to the God Who works in mysterious ways.)
Anyway, the fact that Obama was an illegal POTUS, whereas Trump is not, is an important distinction. I would suggest that we cannot disavow any of our more basic responsibilities of social allegiance to the President
under the Constitution just because we are inclined to regard the man who occupies the Office as something of a scoundrel. (For the sake of our discussion, I will cheerfully adopt your position that he is a scoundrel. [I just happen to prefer the word "jerk."]
At the bottom line,
loyalty to the Constitution is the lynchpin of the entire matter. Our loyalty to the Constitution is why we can and should criticize Trump when he oversteps his executive authority, but it is also why we ought to support him when Constitution-haters seek to frame him in order to depose him or even see him murdered. The Dems (and probably several RINOs) want to impeach him even though they can find no evidence whatsoever of high crimes or misdemeanors. Why are they raping the Constitution in this way? It is because they believe Trump is liable to
hang them for
THEIR sedition and treason if he survives in office for much longer.
Let's wait and see if I am right. If I am right, Trump will address practically all of the governmental corruption that you have decried in practically every thread on which you have angrily posted.
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In the next place, you took issue with
my declaration that some of our best Presidents have been reprobates. You said:
We will have to disagree on that one.
Now, I'm afraid I have you in a box, my friend INVAR. Thomas Jefferson was inarguably one of our best Presidents--and he was inarguably a reprobate. 'Nuff said, I think.
"A good tree cannot bear bad fruit, and a bad tree cannot bear good fruit." - Matthew 7:18
We have to parse the meaning of good. In the real world, there are different kinds of good. There are political trees that bear good political fruit even if some of the personifications of such trees are reprobates. That is how a secular society works even when it was founded on Judeo-Christian principles. Jefferson was honorable (good) in that he was supremely patriotic. (Quite a few of our Founders loathed Jefferson, but Jefferson's unflagging patriotism won out in the end. He was
committed to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Therein consisted his honor.) I submit that our currently crass, tactically shifty President has a role for which he may very will be honored as a supreme patriot, if nothing else, a determined man who was utterly sincere when he swore to uphold the Constitution. Under the circumstances of the mess that we are in as a secular society, Trump may be the best political tree we have had growing in the White House for quite some time--for the simple reason that he is patriotic enough, egotistical enough, (and Scottish enough) to attack America's Deep State enemies with the intention of utterly destroying them.
Remember: Trump was recruited in 2015 by America's military--who were sworn to defend America against all enemies, foreign and domestic. Trump happens to be a bull in a china shop. (He breaks things and blows things up, as Rush would say about the military.) Furthermore, Trump is not always conspicuously honest, not always wise, but he is on our side. He loves America. And I believe that he is in the War against the Deep State to win it for our beloved America--for our lives, our liberties, and our individualistic pursuits of happiness. (Whether Trump is a Christian or not--and he certainly wasn't when he inadvertently [stupidly] defamed Christianity at Liberty University--is beside the point. I think I have seen some changes in Trump since God has started putting him through a humiliating wringer of ugly revelations, with political hyenas and harpies attacking him for his inarguably filthy
past; still, the question of his spiritual perfection [LOL] is beside the point. He is a PRESBYTERIAN, even if not a CHRISTIAN. Right now, a sturdy, angry Presbyterian may be just what we need. [All but one of the colonels in the Colonial Army were
Presbyterian elders.)
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Finally on the theological point that you yourself raised, let me point out that the Lord also said "A tree is
known by its fruits." You did not cite that verse, but it is important. Christ is giving us a truism: a tree is always
pronounced to be good if its fruit is good. A
good fruit tree is a
good tree by definition. We need to keep that in mind while we are wondering about the equally important logic of cause and effect. The good tree produces good fruit as a matter of cause-and-effect. But we infer the goodness of the tree by its fruit--i.e., we
reason BACKWARDS to determine whether the tree is good.
But now let's parse the idea of "good fruit." In Trump's case, we may not see the "fruit of the Spirit [of genuine Christianity]," but we do not always need that in the greatest of measures in our Presidents. What we should look for in President Trump is the long-lasting political fruit of restored values for our Body Politic of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. In all of his stumbling around, perhaps even while he is being sorely tempted to strain against Constitutional limits (such as those that Lincoln actually trampled underfoot in several ways), I believe his military and legal advisers will help him to destroy the Progressives, to destroy the real enemies of America, and to restore our social, economic, and religious freedoms.
Wait and see how many people Trump arrests and prosecutes in this War. That, by definition, will be the
good political
fruit of a
good political
tree growing slowly but surely in the White House.
Finally, your remark:
"It was out of fear of the Communists that we supported Hitler" - Opa Neumüller"
That's inane. Trump is no Hitler.