Daily Verse
“Abraham planted a tamarisk tree in Beersheva, and there
he called upon the name of the Lord, the Eternal God.”
Genesis 21:33

We’ve hit Wednesday … although I don’t think she cares since she’s obsessed with death and wears a black dress with a white collar, black stockings and black shoes. Plus she and Lurch are close.

I watched a video yesterday of president Trump speaking in Texas along the U.S.-Mexican border, where he touted a pillar of his presidency: fighting illegal immigration to the U.S. During his presidential campaign, he promised to build a “big, beautiful wall” along the southern border. His administration delivered, building about 450 miles of new wall.

Wall, by the way, that had been started in the 1990s under the direction of president Clinton, given new life with the Secure Fence Act of 2006 (but was never adequately funded), and then infused with a $20 billion “border surge” in the Border Security, Economic Opportunity, and Immigration Modernization Act of 2013—which died in the House.

Essentially, our Very Smart People in Washington wanted to look all tough on border security—look, we voted to build a wall!—but then they just passed the buck to the next sessions of Congress, took their pay and eventually returned to private life with their lifetime pensions.

It took Donald J. Trump to promise it, order it, and find a way to pay for an effective wall that has proven to reduce illegal entry to the U.S. Just when we’d made good progress, we’re about to swear in open borders socialists who say they will return us to the good ol’ days of massive unchecked, illegal immigration to further saturate our country with illegal Democratic voters.

Be that as it may, the main point I wanted to make was that I noticed two things about Trump’s speech.

First, he seemed weary. He didn’t display the positive, upbeat energy of his MAGA rallies. He didn’t smile much. He just seemed flat. Second, he referred to the incoming administration and the danger of reversing his border policies and the cultural and economic damage doing so would cause.

Putting those two things together—his lack of spirit and his concerns about the incoming administration—tells me that there is no secret trap that’s about to be sprung on the foreign and domestic enemies of our nation. Trump didn’t speak like a man with the confidence of a second inauguration. The fight is gone. There will be no cleansing of the temple.

I want as much as the next MAGA guy for Trump to have another four years. But we’re not going to get it, so we better make the mental transition to life under Biden. It is going to be long and ugly as America descends even further into a deeply divided surveillance state.

[Photo by Jeremy Bishop on Unsplash]