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Why I Am Voting for Trump a Third Time...

“YOU HOLD THE BALANCE”
"Your country, the United States of America, and many other countries of the world are being deceived. While they go forward seeking peace, the enemies of your God and your country are fast preparing to attack. Pray a constant vigilance of prayer, and recognize the faces of evil about you. Pray for the leaders of your country, My children. You hold the balance for the fate of your country.” – Our Lady, August 21, 1976

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TraditionSanity.com reported on November 4, 2024:

By Peter Kwasniewski

I seldom write about modern politics. It’s not my specialty, there are others who do it very well, and, at the end of the day, I suppose I find it so depressing that I’d rather talk about church news — which is also depressing, admittedly, but less so, because one is dealing with a supernatural mystery and thus is always coming up against reasons for hope. None of that is true of secular politics: in a certain sense, it is doomed. The United States of America, long the “top dog” empire, is now in its late Roman decadent phase, ready to fall apart and be torn apart by the barbarians, whatever form that takes in decades to come. We are in the waning phase of our nationhood and our empire. At least, that is how it seems to me.

Nevertheless, out of “enlightened self-interest,” to use an Americanist phrase par excellence, I do not want the collapse to be any quicker or any worse than it has to be. No one wants to see the world in which he and his family and friends and fellow Catholics live collapse into chaos, anarchy, civil war, nuclear war, or foreign domination. So while I am deeply pessimistic about my country, I will still vote for as long as that right has not been stripped away.

There is, I suppose, no conservative or traditionalist who does not recognize that Trump is a deeply flawed and divided man. He is not actually pro-life (though the steps he took that resulted in the reversal of Roe v. Wade earn him an immortal place in the annals of those who did something rather than merely blow rhetoric). He seems to be a thoroughgoing pragmatist and populist. But this is what I appreciate about him: he is someone who, through life experience, knows how to work, how to get a job done, how to work with ordinary people. He is rich but not part of the silver-spoon political elite. As far as I can tell, he’s one of the few who has ever come into politics from outside of the world of political dynasties with inherited entitlements.

Though he has the typical vices of the rich, he is manifestly different from the other politicos — and that is why they hate him so vehemently. The peculiar intensity of their hatred is very telling, is it not? It isn’t simply the usual bickering between candidates, the fisticuffs of rivals. No. They see Trump as something other, as “not one of them,” as a threat to their elitist machinations, their opiate dream of a socially engineered future utopia in which they cynically call the shots and pocket the advantages.

To this extent, I make my own the Facebook comments of my friend Daniel Lendman, a Thomistic theologian and family man, whom I have always respected for his moderate and thoughtful “takes”:

Finally, for me, this election doesn’t come down to policies. I think Trump will be significantly better in foreign policy, and mildly better in domestic policies, that is not why I vote for him.

I will vote for Trump because it is clear to me that Harris is a stooge for unelected elites. This might well be the last free election we have a chance at.

I have witnessed most of the major media platforms and unelected officials do all they can to convince everyone that a woman who, until yesterday, no one liked, was somehow someone great and admirable. I have witnessed how the media and the Harris campaign have consistently and baselessly called Trump and his supporters Nazis and fascists, and a threat to democracy. This inflammatory rhetoric led to two assassination attempts against Trump, one in which he was shot.

It is clear to me that unelected elites are attempting to orchestrate the election outcome, and they fear Trump.

Well, I did not vote for Trump because of what I feared, but his first term was, really, fine. He was great on foreign policy, and fine domestically. Even with Covid he did fine, and claims to the contrary are nonsense. If he wanted to be a dictator, he would have used Covid for that purpose. The man does not crave power, he craves being successful, and that’s not a terrible thing to have in a president.

Harris is willing to imprison the innocent, allow the innocent to die, and suppress free speech in order to silence her enemies. She has an illusion of what it is to be strong or tough, and makes herself look foolish when trying. She does poorly without prompts because she does not really believe in anything. She wants power. This is the most dangerous kind of person to have as president.

I get the concerns about Trump. But he represents the last opportunity for fair and free elections, as far as I can tell.

(I would disagree with Daniel about the handling of Covid — the name Fauci comes to mind — but let’s leave that point aside for the moment.)

Indeed, the way in which Trump has been caricatured as a tyrant or potential tyrant bespeaks the fundamental dishonesty of his enemies.1 He is nothing of the sort, nor would the remaining structures of the US government allow him to get very far even if he wanted to. It is rather his enemies who consort with the demon of absolutism, who talk about expanding the supreme court to ensure its liberal transformation, who want to restructure the electoral college and grant citizenship to millions of illegal aliens (oops, I forgot to use the newspeak “undocumented immigrants”) in order to guarantee the creation of a one-party system and a liberal machine that can never be overpowered again. What they want is what you can read about in Orwell’s 1984. Say goodbye to the Catholic Church in the USA if the Democrats, bloodthirsty and frothing at the mouth, get their way. I am not going to document here the many ways in which the Democratic Party has descended into a foul inhuman ideology; many others have done so. But you could take as emblematic its by now dogmatic and inquisitorial support for LGBTQ+ and transgender surgery on children.

I am aware that some Republicans also support these things; but there is no question that the Democrat platform is wedded to them, while the Republicans are divided over them, with a very large number still opposed. Again: I am not suggesting our alternatives are good and evil. We are talking about choosing between kinds of evil and degrees of evil. How much evil can you tolerate? Is it better to have unlimited murder or limited murder, unlimited child mutiliation or limited? Is it better to have gay marriage but exemptions for churches, or to have gay marriage thrust upon all without exception? Such dregs of human depravity are what our modern democracies have degenerated into: we are given a choice between the devil and the deep blue sea. That being said, I’d rather take my chances on swimming than on the devil.

I should also add that it is certainly possible that a widespread bloody persecution of the Church, with martyrdoms left and right, is what Divine Providence has in store for us; and we can be sure the Church would come out stronger on the other end if it is. But no one should seek that kind of situation, should try to hasten its arrival. If you read the history of the early Church, it was the minority who boldly went to their deaths. Huge numbers of Catholics fell away under horrible tortures and the fear of death. That’s why there was such a huge crisis over the lapsi and the traditores. Unless the Spirit of God impels us (as occurs in some extraordinary cases), we should never go around seeking martyrdom. We should rather pray “Lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil.” 

As for Trump’s record of liaisons contra sextum, I agree they undermine his ability to rule virtuously (this is Thomism 101: if you lack any of the virtues, including temperance, then you lack prudence, and a fortiori, you lack political prudence), but at the same time, unfortunately there seems to be almost no politician or statesman in history who has not helped himself to mistresses left and right, including some of the great “Christian” kings. This is why royal saints, who are fairly numerous (certainly in comparison to the track record of modern democracies), are still a slender minority. JFK, for example, was a notorious philanderer who had about a dozen affairs. The fact that “everybody’s doing it” obviously doesn’t make it right — but it makes it less plausible to wring one’s hands over it, as if we’ll ever have lily-white candidates to choose from. We might, but it’s highly unlikely. Heck, even “St.” Constantine, Equal to the Apostles, murdered his political opponents. No wonder he waited till his deathbed to be baptized.

As a voter, I see the situation in rather stark terms: either we elect a man who, bad as he is, will protect, or at least not trammel, some of our basic rights, take a moderately isolationist line, and do a lot of common-sense things, as he did in his first term; or we elect a woman who is absolutely the creature of the globalist, progressivist, transhumanist elite. Yes, it is not a choice between good and evil but between two evils. Nevertheless, one of the evils can be borne with, and the other evil bids fair to shut down the world of everyday “freedoms” we take for granted.

I say this as one who fully accepts Leo XIII’s critique of modern social-compact democracy and its skewed notion of liberty. As far as I can tell, there is hardly a government in the entire Western world that conforms, even at the most basic level of its constitution and fundamental laws, to Catholic Social Teaching. Moreover, I fully recognize that modern political conservatism is often no more than “liberalism in slow motion” (my articles “Why Conservatism Is Part of the Problem, Not Part of the Solution” and “Christian Conservatism vs. Traditional Catholicism” explain why this is so; I also developed my thoughts here at T&S: “Conservatism as a Dead-End: Why We Need to Be Traditionalists”). Once again, I am not talking about what “ought” to be the case — of choices we wish we had — but of what is the least worst outcome for ourselves, our families, our churches, here and now, in the post-Christian, post-natural law world in which we make our weary pilgrimage.

When all is said and done, I am a single-issue voter. That issue is abortion. The right to life is the most basic of all rights, without which nothing else has any meaning whatsoever. If you are willing to kill the unborn, you are an enemy of my country, an enemy of my people, an enemy of the human race, an enemy of the Church. From this point of view, the USA is already deep in the abyss, at enmity with the Lord of life, whose all-seeing eye records all and repays all. What must be the condition of a country in which a huge number of citizens are desperate enough to kill (or have killed) their own children, either to get what they want or to avoid what they fear? How can a society survive that allows such wanton carnage of its own, by its own? There is nothing here but a self-destructive vacuum, the inverse of a polity. To the extent that abortion spreads, it dissolves the bonds that hold society together, that hold families together, even that hold individuals to the reality beyond themselves. Abortion is a universal political and metaphysical solvent.2

Trump is not pro-life. That is a great tragedy. But he is also not ideologically committed to expanding abortion rights everywhere and always. For him, abortion is a pragmatic matter, to be fought over at the polls, state by state. For Kamala Harris and the Democrats in general, however, abortion is the unholy grail, the salacious sacrament of their Catharist communism, marked by hatred of nature, sexuality, life, the material world. Kamala is an ideological maniac who will shove abortion down our throats with the passionate intensity of an Aztec high priest, as she cackles on a heap of infant carcasses. All you have to do is pay attention. She makes official visits to abortion clinics to praise their hard work. She preaches “reproductive rights” with the zealous conviction of a born-again Christian. The Democratic Party made sure, at its last convention, to have abortions being performed on site in traveling trailers, while Cardinal Cupich, the Party chaplain, blessed their Antichrist gospel.

In our two-party system, a vote for Kamala is a straightforward vote for death, for the expansion of death, for the indoctrination of youths with the lust of death. A vote for Trump is a vote against this terminal sickness, this demonic religion that will stop at nothing to crush heads, stop hearts, and saturate the land in the blood of innocents. The choice not to vote is also, I would argue, a failure to do the little one can to block this satanic juggernaut. Trump represents a messy, inadequate, barely supportable alternative; but a vote for him is a vote against… that other thing.

A final pragmatic consideration. If Trump is elected and then assassinated — as the sun rises and sets, we can be sure there will be another attempt, and another after that—I am content with J.D. Vance as the next president. That is something I can live with. But if Kamala Harris were to be assassinated — less likely, admittedly, but still within the realm of possibility in our toxic political atmosphere — can you imagine Tim Walz as the next president? A man who has direct ties to the Chinese Communist Party, and who is as much a brainless liberal as Kamala? This is not someone who should serve in any capacity at any time, let alone in the second most important office of the country.

So — albeit with a clothespin on my nose, to block out the stench of the American political sewer — I will unhesitatingly vote for Trump and for a whole slate of Republicans tomorrow at my local election station. I pray that enough of my fellow Americans will do the same, if only to delay, at least for a little longer, the enforced death march toward a suicidal socialist utopia.

Thank you for reading, and may God bless you — and may God bless America.

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Recommended reading:

• Rod Dreher, “The Enemy of My Enemy Is Donald J. Trump”

• Sean Fitzpatrick, “Trump-Vance: The Soft-Prolife Ticket”

• Jonathon Van Maren, “Killers for Kamala” (THIS is the article to share with anyone you know who is “pro-choice”)

• Jonathon Van Maren, “Moloch’s Web of Lies”

• Jonathon Van Maren, “What Should Social Conservatives Think of J.D. Vance?”

1 - On an airplane trip from Athens to Munich, I say next to a German gentleman, with whom I exchanged some pleasantries in both English and German. He asked me at one point, “So, what do you think about the upcoming election? I am very afraid that Trump will become a tyrant.” I asked him why he thought that, and his answers were rather vague. They seemed to amount to “because the media has said so.”

2 - I have written at length of the metaphysical and spiritual implications of abortion in my book Treasuring the Goods of Marriage in a Throwaway Society (Manchester, NH: Sophia Institute Press, 2023), 216-49.

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