Sorry for the delay, folks. I’ve read your emails and I share your outrage concerning the events of this past Saturday. However, I wanted to take a few days and process those events in my head, and apply all the different layers of consideration in order to write an informed piece, and not a knee jerk and exclusively political rant.

So firstly, my thoughts and prayers are with the retried firefighter who lost his life shielding his family from an obviously deranged and pathetic soul, and to his family, friends and colleagues as well. Theirs is an awful, unending pain and anguish that no words of mine could ever assuage. And to the wounded who continue to recover, I pray they get well soon and achieve some level of normalcy after this horrific display of political violence.

To President Trump and his family, my family and I pray every day that Jesus would look after and protect you all, as you put aside your personal lives in service to your country. I have no doubt that He did just that this past weekend. We will continue to pray mightily for you and for our republic, in the weeks and months ahead of this most important and consequential of elections. God bless you!

Now with all of that said, let’s move on to the politics of the matter. I will attempt to do this in two parts, starting with the facts. This may anger some who have trouble with truth and facts, but that’s too bad. They are not negotiable. After that, I will pontificate a bit on my hopes for the coming election and beyond.

So I was listening to one of many radio programs I tune into daily, and the host said something that kind of summed up what happened on 7/13/24. If you keep saying Trump, (or anyone for that matter), is Hitler, he’s a threat to our democracy, he’s a fascist dictator, and he’s going to throw all of his political opponents in jail, (all of which is wholly unsubstantiated propaganda BTW), AND, if you have nearly the entire United States “news” media parroting that BS across every channel and every social media platform, eventually some maladjusted/socially retarded psychopath is going to feel compelled to step in and try and save the world from that individual. And that’s exactly what happened. So while Joe Biden and the left have done a spectacular job of painting Donald Trump as an absolute monster who will steal all of your money and give it to someone else, pit American against American, indoctrinate your children, weaponize the American justice system against, you……. Wait, what???

You heard that right. The left in this country are actually everything they claim to abhor. From jailing their political opponents, to the “President” of the United States calling on supporters to “put Trump in their bullseye”, to prominent political and press folks openly calling for the assassination of the former president, the incendiary TDS rhetoric coming out of the new democrat party and their friends in the media is loud and clear, and finally stirred one of their own to violence. Now in a purely political sense, it’s easy to see why. Beside the fact that DJT the man can certainly intimidate those whose constitutions are usually framed by self-esteem and other emotional issues, he is also the ultimate outsider with MAGA ideas not well received in the so-called DC Swamp. You see, before he wanted to be president, a ticket to a Trump Galla was highly sought after prestige by the elitist scumbags. That all changed when Trump decided that his grandchildren’s country was compromised by the very same scumbags, and he wanted to do something about it. Throw in a phony pandemic and a stolen election, and you have this vitriolic soup if you will, which has spilled out over every aspect of our political system and way of life, truly bringing out the absolute worst in folks. The results are unacceptable in a free republic such as ours, and a change in direction is critical to the future of our posterity.

So as the Republican National Convention wraps up in Milwaukee, I believe Donald Trump has a very unique opportunity. After experiencing and surviving the worst of his country, he can now attempt to draw out its best. Thus it is my fervent hope and prayer that 45 do just that. And that he may extinguish the raging fires of hate which led to the appalling acts of last Saturday, and inspire decent Americans on all sides of the political spectrum to come together, recognize our national condition, and move to bring back the foundational tenets and values which set us apart from the rest of the world. Donald J. Trump the candidate understands this. But only Donald J. Trump the man can make it happen this Thursday. (Oh, and along with the blessings of a loving God who protected him so he might have that opportunity).