It has lately occurred to me that, much
as Abraham Lincoln was considered an existential threat to the pro-slavery
South, to the institution of slavery itself, and to the “Deep South State” (to
coin a phrase), Donald Trump is seen as an equal threat to the longtime swamp
creatures dwelling in and around the capital today. In fact, the similarities
are striking.
While Democrats this go around haven’t
fired on Fort Sumter, those who consider Trump a threat have fired on
him. There was a plan to prevent Lincoln from taking office, much as there have
been multiple plans to prevent Trump from doing the same. Sadly, you can bet
that today’s Deep Staters will fight a figurative war with Trump and his
supporters with the same zealousness and ferocity as the slaveholding, solidly
Democrat South fought the free states. Democrats back then sought disunion by
literally attempting to secede from it. And by attacking the northern states militarily.
Today’s Democrats foment disunion by attempting to divide us by promoting CRT
and DEI programs, reparations, and countless other policies, ideas, and
programs.
Slavery, the “peculiar institution” of
yesteryear, is not dissimilar to the monopoly on power, and indeed mental
tyranny, that is the “peculiar institution” beloved of the modern Democrat
party. Let us hope that freedom prevails again today.
As Lincoln said to his fellow
Springfield residents upon leaving to take office in Washington, D.C., “Let us
all pray that the God of our fathers may not forsake us now.”
As Trump prepares to take office next
month, a similar prayer seems in order now.
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