Daily Verse | 1 Chronicles 17:20
There is no one like you, O Lord, and there is no God but you, as we have heard with our own ears.

Happy Monday, Broadsiders, and welcome to the last week of April. “Thirty days hath September, April, May June and November; all the rest have 31, except March 2020, which has 936 if we’re counting two weeks to flatten the curve.”

This weekend on my way to a hardware store I was sitting at a red light when a pick-up truck sporting a large Trump flag drove through the intersection in front of me. I had to check my watch; wasn’t Trump sort of last November or, at the latest, January 6?

Seeing a Trump flag go whipping by out of “proper” political context sort of encouraged me. I often rehearse for people who want to know that I was a Never Trumper during the 2016 primaries because he was a braggart and loudmouth and then I wrote in a third-party candidate in the general election, probably because I loved Hillary and wanted to kill our country or something.

Anyway, by the end of Trump’s first term I finally understood the man and his temperament. I saw him keeping promises as he brought back jobs, closed the border, revved the economy, got us out of idiotic international agreements, pulled our troops out of pointless conflicts, made us energy-independent and asserted American exceptionalism as the entire DC machine tried to take him down while he set about destroying the pretense that the legacy media are objective truth seekers and instead are the communist sympathizers they are.

He was actually making things happen for the benefit of everyone. Black and Latino unemployment was at record lows; our overall unemployment numbers were at record lows, companies were having a hard time finding people to employ and stocks kept setting records. We were cruising.

But then came the Asian Lung Pox, unleashed by the Chinese Communist Party on an unsuspecting world. Dr. Faux Chi, an inept bureaucrat whose salary is more than the president’s of the United States, played right into their hands and insisted that this virus was such an existential threat to health and life that America must “shelter in place” and shut down completely, in the process destroying the economy and thousands of small businesses.

Trump didn’t help himself by being at the lectern every day which tied him to the results and amplified every turn of phrase and claim that he made. He should’ve let Pence and the team handle it.

Add to that the death of George Floyd and the months of Burn, Loot and Murder, Inc., as anarchists took to the streets demanding that the police be defunded and that white people admit their privilege and supremacy and give up their place in society and pretty soon the U.S. looked like some kind of banana republic as people cowered out of confusion and fear of what they could and couldn’t do while the Marxists took over the streets.

Top it all off with a fraudulent election and an unwise breach of the Capitol and Trump was turned out by the junior commies of the Left and their enablers in the House and Senate—and I’m not just talking about Democrats. And now we’ve got a brain-dead cypher as figurehead-in-chief who’s being trundled around like a “Weekend at Bernie’s” corpse.

All this to say that when Trump left office, I felt his departure acutely. And it seems as though someone else has, too, someone who flies his Trump flag in the face of any and all who voted for the feckless Resident occupying the White House right now.

Seeing the flag was encouraging because it’s defiant. It says that in spite of your anti-American subversion of the Constitution and all that it guarantees us as free men and women, I stand proudly and defiantly against you. It tells the community around here that the MAGA spirit is still alive and well in America, and it won’t be long until we’re able to again vote against the forces arrayed against us in all of the institutions that have been corrupted by both elected and unelected MAGA-haters who despise our founding and the men who invented our form of government.

So be encouraged. I plan to fly my Trump flag this summer as an act of solidarity with the anonymous pickup truck driver and as a way to thumb my nose at the domestic enemies living in my country. I want to tell the community that we haven’t gone away, we’re not defeated and that hope springs eternal.

If they think America First has gone the way of the dodo, they have another think coming.