….When I was on the Cruz campaign opposing Trump in 2016, I made an analogy about his popularity with evangelicals. Because we were also striving to be the evangelical candidate, and couldn't figure out why this NYC celebrity with a tabloid greatest hits album was more popular with Southern Baptists than our Southern Baptist candidate? And I pointed to Clint Eastwood's drifter/pale rider anti-hero in the Spaghetti Westerns as that analogy.
The people preferred the Gary Cooper nice guy sheriff would cleanse the town of the banditos. The one they could look up to. Desire to marry their daughters off to. The one they would name their sons after. But that nice guy sheriff never showed up for the fight, and thus the town kept getting overrun by the banditos.
Sooner or later, you just need to survive. So you turn to the pale rider, the drifter, the anti-hero when you're cornered and out of options. And you know the collateral damage of aligning with him will be high (as in some of your windows and storefronts are likely to be shot out, or your townsfolk may be caught in the crossfire). You know he's got unrepentant flaws you don't aspire to. But you also know it is this or the end of your town.
The reality is for all of his flaws, and for all the things about him and his way of doing things that have both flummoxed and frustrated me, the truth is Trump has done more to fight the darkness seeping into this culture and threatening to overrun it since he came down that escalator in 2016, than The Church has done collectively thus far this century.
There's a reason the darkness is shooting at Donald Trump instead of The Church. The biggest problem America has is most of her pastors are unworthy of being shot at….
Fantastic thread - must read - I disagree about what he thinks of the RNC but he understands the gist of what’s happening