It’s Monday and the start of another week. I’m a year older and hopefully a year smarter today.

I’ve said before that I was not a fan of Donald J. Trump when he was running for president in 2016. I didn’t like his brash, self-promotional style, and I hated how he treated all the other candidates. It felt like an extension of his hit TV show, The Apprentice, where he could be rude and insult contestants as he saw fit.

But there are a number of reasons I’ve since come around to supporting him. Part of it is that he’s governed much more conservatively than I expected and has been very successful doing so. The tax cut, the strong economy, building the wall, renegotiating NAFTA, cutting ties with China, making NATO partners pay up, moving the American embassy in Israel to Jerusalem, pulling our troops out of Iraq and Afghanistan, pulling the U.S. out of the Paris Climate Accords and remaking the Middle East—these are great domestic and international accomplishments.

The other part is that his presidency has exposed the raging dumpster fire called the Democrat Party. If it was up to me, I’d declare them a hostile actor and ban them from organizing. Sort of like the Nazi party in Germany.

Our Democrat representatives and Senators are some of the worst America has to offer. They hate our Constitution, they hate our political processes, they hate those who built this great nation, they hate conservatives and they hate our president. They have weaponized the tools of government in an effort to pull off a coup d’état through the Russia hoax, the fake impeachment and they incite their supporters to violence. They support cancel culture, they want to take our guns and they plan to pack the Supreme Court.

Worst of all, they lie. Constantly. They remind me of Jesus’ words about the devil.

“When he lies, he speaks his native language, for he is a liar and the father of lies.” John 8:44

Everything they accuse conservatives and Republicans of being or doing, they are guilty of themselves. I don’t trust anything they say. Not one. single. thing.

I’m hoping and praying that Trump wins re-election in less than a month, and have been mostly confident that, even with the economic damage that the Chinese Bat Flu has done (with the help of the junior commies running the states), he will easily win. So imagine my surprise when I read, in just the space of three or four days, that some of our more visible conservative opinion leaders are raising flags of concern.

Michael Brown at Townhall:

Although many of my friends with spiritual intuition remain confident that Donald Trump will be reelected, looking at things through natural eyes, his prospects are not good.

Stephen Kruiser at PJ Media:

I am the resident pessimist here at the Townhall Mothership about the president’s re-election chances. I wish I could take comfort from my friends and colleagues who feel that Trump has got this election, but I just can’t find my way to what I feel is irrational exuberance.

David Bernstein at Instapundit:

Trump is losing. Badly. That’s what the recent polls shows. That doesn’t mean he will lose. There’s almost a month left, and if he can turn around 2.5% of current Biden voters, and thus get within around 4% of Biden, plus pick up a few “shy Trump” voters, he can win the electoral college while losing the popular vote by several points. But right now he’s losing, and it’s not because the polls are biased, not because of any conspiracy by the media to cover up his success. He’s basically getting the vote of every voter who approves of his job performance, and no one else.

Neil Patel at Daily Caller:

There is nearly a month to go before Election Day, and things could change, but if they don’t, the numbers look like Joe Biden may win big.

On the surface, it looks very similar to 2016 when Hillary Clinton was up by eleven points over Donald Trump just over three weeks out from the election. I wish I could chalk up Biden’s ten-point lead to the same over-confidence that existed then, with the silent Trump voters coming out to deliver states once thought impenetrable by Republicans.

But what if the press and the pollsters learned from their experience and have refined their polling to account for the things they overlooked in 2016? What if they are much more accurate in taking stock of the American public’s views on Biden and Trump?

I’m not a pollster. I’m not even an amateur political analyst. I’m an observer who tries to synthesize what I see happening across the political and cultural landscape. These four pundits, who have been at this game a lot longer than I have, are more politically astute than I am. If they’re having their doubts and raising at least a yellow flag at minimum, we should pay attention to that.

The one thing I can do, and that I invite you to do, is to pray with all your might. Pray for Trump to win, yes. There’s a lot that will be memory-holed if he loses, like the investigations into the Russia hoax and its tentacles into the Obama administration—including Joe Biden! There’s a lot that will be left undone (the wall) and probably reversed (decoupling from China, the tax cut) if he is ousted. So pray that he wins.

But also pray for yourself and for our country if he loses. I am not by nature a conspiracy theorist or a scare-monger. But I’ve been observing what those in power are saying, doing, and threatening to do. If the Democrats win the presidency and the Senate, they will do everything in their power to make sure they can never be removed from power again. Especially not by those rubes from middle America who cling to their guns and religion.

Also, get out there and VOTE IN PERSON. Take one or two or ten more people with you. Almost half of all Americans who are eligible to vote, don’t. That’s tantamount to a dereliction of duty. And if you can knock on doors or contribute financially to Senate campaigns, do that too.

Finally, remember that God is sovereign and His will prevails no matter what happens. Believers should take comfort in that, but not become fatalistic. As Michael Brown concluded his column, “Thankfully, the election is still a few weeks out, and regardless of the outcome, Jesus is still Lord. It’s just important to realize that the stakes are very high … There is no hyperbole here.”

The stakes are very high, indeed. Let’s act like it.

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