Imagining the Broadway Cast

 “I thank thee, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because thou hast hid these things from the wise and prudent, and hast revealed them unto babes.” - Matt 11:25

There is something deeply satisfying and edifying in how God is working with this nation. We’re seeing a “play that rhymes” in how a ragtag bunch exposed the rot that hid beneath the attractive edifice.  An edifice composed of folks like the tall and well-spoken James Comey, the all-American boy scout out of central casting. And all of this led by the unlikeliest of heroes, Donald Trump. 

It’s certainly been educational.  It’s hilarious, in hindsight, that I was concerned about Trump’s ethical lapses, specifically his Trump University and his eminent domain suit that chased an old lady from her property. I was immune to the Flight 93 stuff and under the naive impression that we were in a “business as usual” environment with the usual threats of leftist policies. Trump seemed to stand out from an ethical perspective but that’s only because of my ignorance.  I’d thought we could live off the Judeo-Christian capital for longer but that ignores the reality that we all live on a knife’s edge as far as faith and morals. 

Imagine the cast! A drunk Giuliani past his sell date, a brilliant and enigmatic Patrick Byrne, an erratic and already red-pilled Sidney Powell, the spiritually-minded truth-seeker Eric Metaxas, and the calm and methodical Matthew DePerno and Matt Braynard.  And that leaves out true believer and ex-crack addict Mike Lindell!

Perhaps the cast is colorful because it had to be. Only the colorful, the outcasts, dare question conventional wisdom. All the old verities and virtues are young again when we see the rot and sin.  

There are signs of hope. Corruption, like forest fires, contains the seeds of rebirth. The editorial staff at National Review may be election fraud deniers but it’s said the young there are as red-pilled as the young at the NYT are woke.  It will take a younger generation in part because there are obstacles for establishment Republicans: 

1. They don’t wish to see what is hard to see. They have a vested interest in seeing the marginal tax rate as the most serious problem we have. NR’s Charlie Cooke went so far to say such knowledge of leadership rot would be too painful for him. As a proud American and immigrant from Britain he has too much invested in the rosy view.  

2. The other obstacle is having to accept Trump and his people, the deplorables, which is particularly difficult for an establishment party more Whig than democrat, more John Quincey Adams than Andrew Jackson.  

In some ways the beltway GOP is like the Catholic Church pre-2002. The leaders of the Church were aware of priestly pedophile problem if not the magnitude and under the impression that it was better to sweep it under the rug in an effort to protect against scandal. Business as usual. Until the earthquake. 

I can’t help but be inspired at the rising up of MAGA and how even after Jan 6th they didn’t back down one iota. Everything in our collective gut told us that Jan 6th would spell the doom of the movement. But everyone with hears to hear and eyes to see understood and had already got red-pilled. 

There’s also a deep satisfaction when somebody sees what we see - like Darryl Cooper - because the usual suspects are incurious (i.e. National Review editors). NR seems to have decided to maintain mainstream respectability over truth and I can understand it inasmuch as they were already under fire in ’17 thru ’19 for being perceived as too Trump-friendly and too nationalistic.  Head honcho Rich Lowry has deep roots in establishment Washington with Meet the Press and you could taste how much he wanted to move on from Trump and probably was inwardly glad to see Biden as potus. 

In a better world, National Review would've taken it upon themselves to put out a special issue on election fraud, with each article examining a different type of fraud and the likelihood of it happening. It could be done to do their small part in trying to unite the Right by examining the claims closely and without condescension. 

But truth wins out even if it takes a generation. Witness how scientist Max Planck offered proofs not accepted by the establishment scientists at the time because they did not want to see it; he was later vindicated by the younger generation without the blinders of previous attachments.