A Leaven In The World… Parable For Church In Historic Election

By FR. KEVIN M. CUSICK

We stand athwart a new cultural landscape formed atop the shift of cultural tectonic plates which was the Trump election upset. A businessman political outsider with no military or previous elected experience will now be calling the shots in D.C. Many who were last are first and many who have been first will be last.
Did this historic seismic shift in the U.S. landscape result from years of a very successful effort to disenfranchise white voters by an overcompensating promotion of minorities of every kind — even those “minorities” who have been artificially surgically altered? Time will tell, but the evidence is abundantly available for all to see.
When millions of schoolchildren, who are tranquilly seeking only to pursue an education, have their lives disrupted by what has been coined “transgender” bathrooms, the elected elites are begging for pushback. The common man has now spoken by voting out the disruptive cultural figureheads and their cronies in Washington who have been aided and abetted by Soros-funded operatives, some of whom we now witness rioting in over a dozen U.S. cities.
We have long coddled the born while satanically executing the unborn: this national, religious, and cultural inversion can never be supported without consequences and since 1973 we have seen and suffered these in abundance. No nation that rejects its unborn can long claim to love or respect those outside the womb. Marital and family troubles, divorce, drug abuse, physical and sexual abuse — these and more are related to our inability to love and cherish the weakest and most vulnerable among us.
The cultural backlash that played a part in the historic election of 2016 was in part against the ridiculous multiplication of new minorities, as described by an ever-growing list of capital letters. But along with this has come a host of anti-life agendas in the form a Godless tsunami. It is euthanasia, the redefinition of marriage, federal funding and expansion of abortion, and glamorization of sodomy that are all among the agendas that many Catholics and others of goodwill hope to turn back under a Trump presidency.
Already indicating a dramatic change of atmosphere is the naming of Reince Priebus — the first Republican National Committee chairman ever to walk with thousands of others in the annual D.C. March for Life — as Trump’s chief of staff. Dare we hope and pray that President Trump himself might address the March for Life this coming January, or even march along with us?
An example of the cultural confusion about authority and parental irresponsibility involved students in the suburban D.C. area who walked off school property during classroom hours after being given permission for a peaceful anti-Trump rally on the football field. In this case at least, adult-enabled hooky fueled public anti-Trump protests.
Thanks to the exponential growth of social networks like Facebook and Twitter, and the snobbish disregard by old media such as The New York Times, the landslide caught many by surprise. Enabled by the easy access of the common man to social networks for building consensus, the Trump campaign spent much less than the Clinton campaign on conventional TV ads and with very different results.
This metric is just one of many indicators that the adage “adapt and survive” applies now as much as ever. Trump gave voice in his message to the sentiments of Americans from a variety of cultural groups, including immigrants, and his ground game agilely took advantage of new media.
The power of Trump’s appeal is seen in the case of a woman Muslim immigrant who voted for him because she did not want a president who might continue to take money from pro-terrorist regimes such as Yemen and Saudi Arabia.
Trump’s self-made status and freedom from dependence upon political connections also promised an antidote to the carpetbagger and community organizer families who have been positioning themselves to control the presidency into the future. Trump’s rise has cut them off, at least for the time being.
The current administration did such a good job of making working-class whites feel disenfranchised that a counter-revolt rose up and flexed its muscles at the ballot box. Be careful what you ask for.
The stunning apology by The New York Times for its twisted coverage of the Trump campaign is part of a desperate and futile ploy to stay in business by adapting to the Trump consensus. Even Hillary and the current occupant of the Oval Office are adjusting their messages chameleon-like to enable them to remain players in the new political environment.
Appeals to religious liberty and the sanctity of life, with nearly unprecedented pre-election promises made specifically to Catholics, set Trump apart as a candidate. We have not only been ignored but spurned and rejected for so long now that the Trump juggernaut seems a breath of fresh air.
The Trump revolution is useful as a study for the shifting landscape also in the life of the Church. I see it in my own parish where, for the first time in more than 50 years, faithful Catholics from their 20s to octogenarians are uniting together around Jesus Christ at our weekday Masses, as well as on Sundays, thanks to the Traditional Latin Mass. Those who would benefit from the swing of the pendulum also taking place in our Church would do well to pay attention and adjust accordingly.
Presidents, politics, and parties come and go. Temporal things sometimes take on an outsize portion of our time and attention. Let’s not forget that Trump may disappoint as all elected officials eventually do after the honeymoon feelings fade. As St. Paul teaches, we must ever look to “Jesus, the author and finisher of faith, who having joy set before him, endured the cross, despising the shame, and now sitteth on the right hand of the throne of God.”
Let us pray for all elected officials, including those now involved in transformational work in the Washington administration, that they will seek the common good of one nation under God so that our American experiment in ordered liberty may enable us to serve our God first and in freedom with eternal life in view.
Thank you for reading and praised be Jesus Christ, now and forever. @MCITLFrAphorism
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