Am I Going to Keep Re-Fighting the Election?

Short answer: No.

Longer answer: I am going to do exactly what I would have done if Hillary Clinton had won, which is to keep writing my own material and posting articles from other solid sources. To keep trying to advance ideas of reasonableness, conservatism, and, most importantly, faith. To not give in to the thought that no one wants to hear those ideas. To not feel, as one journalist said last week, that I’m just “screaming into the void.” I know that I have been an encouragement to some of my readers, and I want to continue to have that role. I hope that I have helped at least a few people to think rather than just react. And it’s important to me personally to write about my thoughts and feelings, even if no one else reads what I say.

I have been very much aware of the temptation to want to be proven right. I don’t want to be mean-spirited, or vengeful, or contemptuous. If those of us who were horrified at the idea of a Trump presidency are indeed correct in our assumptions, then America is in for a terrible time. I hope that God will be merciful to us. But He rarely rescues us from the natural consequences of our actions. We have chosen, under His sovereignty, and now we must live with that choice.

I had planned to post an article today from Thabitii Anyabwile, the pastor from Washington DC whose articles showed up on this blog way back last summer, giving his thoughts the day after the election, but I will do that tomorrow. I also have excellent material from RedState’s Susan Wright, which will show up later on this week. One last post from this week will center around a white nationalist’s view of Trump.

Here are some thoughts for today:

Sophomores at an almost-exclusively-black high school, 19 blocks from our nation’s Capitol, were asking Wednesday, “Is slavery going to come back? Are we all going to be sent back to Africa?”

A Jewish family in California is liquidating their assets and moving to Israel because they are so terrified of what life will be like under a Trump administration. Their neighbor down the street has hoisted a flag with a swastika over his house. And indeed, swastikas have been popping up all over the place since the Trump victory.

We now have a white nationalist, Steve Bannon, appointed as chief strategist in the White House. So please don’t tell me that Trump does not buy into his vile ideas.

The North Carolina branch of the KKK is planning a “Victory Klavalkade” on Dec. 3 to celebrate Trump’s victory. This is not a rumor. It is true that a Trump campaign spokesperson, Hope Hicks, has condemned this plan as has the NC GOP, but folks, that is not the point. The question is, why are they rejoicing?

And I will end with some words from Senator Ben Sasse, one of the few Republican officeholders who remained steadfast in his opposition to Trump up until election day:

The marketplace of ideas should be civil, but it should also be contested. We should disagree respectfully. Reflexive tribalism and reflexive partisanship are signs of a sick republic, not a healthy one. And so we should argue about Mr. Trump’s coming proposals.

And that is what I plan to do.