President Trump's Masada moment
By: Star Parker
We stand by President Trump. We don’t care what the left thinks or says about it but the harder and more they come after him, the more we re double and double down on our defense of and support for him. We will not abandon America First populist conservative nationalism. We will never walk away from MAGA as an issue or idea no matter who says what about it.
S E E D E D C O N T E N T
Donald Trump had a successful presidency in his effort to "Make America Great Again." But America cannot be great if America, as Alexis de Tocqueville said, is not good.
There seems to be only one area of common ground in our country today: agreement that something is wrong. But regarding what that "something" is, and what we need to do, there is profound disagreement throughout the nation.
The violence in which the sacred ground of our nation's Capitol building was violated by unruly hooligans, resulting in the death of five, is a low point in our history.
Clearly, something is wrong. But we won't be able to fix it until we define it correctly.
Those on the right are entirely correct that the tone of violence, chaos and nihilism was set by the left. Our cities and institutions have been vandalized and looted with impunity by the Black Lives Matter and antifa movements over the last several years, receiving support and endorsement by Democratic Party leaders and, sadly, many business leaders.
After a violent mob pulled down a statue of Christopher Columbus in Baltimore, a journalist asked House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, "Shouldn't that be done by a commission or the city council, not a mob in the middle of the night throwing it into the harbor?" Pelosi's response: "People will do what they do."
The speaker tore up, for all to see on international television, the president's State of the Union address after he finished discharging that constitutionally directed duty.
I, of course, could go on. The point is that the answer to horrible behavior is not horrible behavior.
It's the absolute secularization of the nation, the purge of the Almighty from our public life, the crowning politicians king of the universe, that is destroying us.
Our democratic republic, our freedom, is vital. But with no absolutes, it deteriorates to chaos.
It is why President Lincoln refused to let the issue of the spread of slavery be submitted to democracy. There must be absolutes that precede politics.
It is the Ten Commandments where we learn that murder and theft are forbidden. When life and property are turned over to politics, the result is the chaos we now see.
The nation's high court, in many bad decisions over the last century, has undermined our Constitution as a limiting factor on federal government power. But the critical moment of detaching the nation as a free nation under God occurred in 1973, in the Roe v. Wadedecision that legalized abortion. The federal government took charge of defining life and giving women license to destroy it.
Then, in 2015, in the Obergefell v. Hodgesdecision, government seized the authority to define, or redefine, the sacred institution of marriage.
President Trump had a successful presidency in his effort to "Make America Great Again."
A powerful economy was restored and has sustained us through the COVID-19 crisis. Our courts are now filled with principled, conservative judges. The United States led the way to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, and a new, unbelievable peace has been achieved in the Middle East.
But America cannot be great if America, as Alexis de Tocqueville said, is not good.
President Trump now has an opportunity to sign off on a powerful note that will totally change the tenor that Democrats want to set.
He cannot control Democrats' ability to politicize events and impeach him. But, if they do it, he can take control by resigning.
He can take the high, high ground, in contrast to their low, low ground. He can take responsibility for the horror that just occurred at the Capitol, because it occurred on his watch. And he can use the opportunity to declare that America must be a free nation under God, and that this is the great challenge that faces us going forward.
He can turn the reins of leadership, in these waning days, to Vice President Mike Pence, an upright Christian man and American patriot who could speak truth to the nation as the unruly Democratic mob takes charge and begins its long campaign to drag our nation into the abyss.
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Star Parker is president of the Center for Urban Renewal and Education and host of the new weekly news talk show "Cure America with Star Parker."
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Thank you for the ridiculous MAGA comedy skit. Donald Trump has never in his life taken the "high road", he doesn't care about God, at all, and would just as soon meet Pence in the middle of 5th avenue as turn over the reins to him in the next week.
There is no reference to Masada in the entire article. I was expecting some melodramatic analogy between trump and the historical story of Masada. Why is it in the title of the article ? The article is just emotional blather.
As usual.
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As a person who has stood up on Masada, I, too, was curious about the reference. The Jews on Masada committed suicide rather than become slaves to the Romans who were invading. Is it being suggested that perhaps Trump should commit suicide rather than give up the keys to the White House?
Here is Buzz of the Orient, standing on Masada with the Dead Sea in the background.
If I am correct in my supposition that Trump could be contemplating suicide, then perhaps Trump 2024 should contact this organization:
If you or someone you know is at risk of suicide please call the U.S. National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 800-273-8255, text TALK to 741741 or visit SpeakingOfSuicide.com/resources for additional resources.
too late, they blocked his number.
So that means that the people on the right are obligated to return like for like? If, as you always claim, "This article and author are totally correct in every aspect," that means that you agree with this statement. Therefore, you are agreeing to a lie because the statement is demonstrably false, factually inaccurate, and logically flawed. I am not going to point out these flaws, because you will just,"...re double and double down on our defense of and support for (Trump). We will not abandon America First populist conservative nationalism. We will never walk away from MAGA as an issue or idea no matter who says what about it...," which means post some text of the article, hopefully bloc-quoted. Not only do you condone these lies presented in the article, you promote and genuflect to them.
I thought you were a Good Christian? Good Christians don't promote and further lies, and this article is full of lies and demonstrably so.
So Mike Pence is finally going to tell the truth: Election fraud and all of the stories that go along with it were lies of the first order, going from misinformation to outright fabrications.
This is what a good, Christian man would say because it is the truth. Any thing else is a lie and should not be given the air to breath or countenanced by agreement to debate.
Some people think that merely claiming something makes it true. So why would that not apply to being a good Christian? One can just claim to be a good Christian and ... ★★★ magically ★★★ ... s/he simply is. Claim that Trump is the greatest PotUS and this is fact. Not like being out of touch with reality ...
How is it that it does not register with you that there has been zero evidence of anything that would have changed the results of this election??
This is extremely simply to understand. Every election has some level of impropriety. With a nation of our size a 100% perfect election would be an incredible accomplishment. So the bar is not 100% accuracy, but rather sufficient accuracy to know that the majority of electoral votes were legitimately earned by the winner.
Nothing in all these bullshit attempts has produced evidence suggesting otherwise. It is beyond foolish to continue to believe that Biden did not win according to the CotUS and the law of the land.
Stop lying. It is unChristian to lie and to disseminate lies.
It is as if we have a street corner barker declaring 'the end is near'. No reason, no evidence ... simply utterly stupid declarations that are directly contradicted by the full constitutional process of a presidential election that has been challenged, recounted, litigated, certified and confirmed.
Declaring this election a steal is a sycophantic cry that goes beyond gullibility.