Almighty God on Trump's Side: Gott Mit Uns

 

Donald Trump said what many people--both his fans and his detractors--said after that bullet missed his skull by inches.

Whether you are a believer or an atheist, the miss seemed Providential.  You may think there is no guiding hand in history, no God intervening as the Greek gods were thought to do, but the whole episode is fantastical.

Many have observed the only way to really stop Trump and Trumpism, as is true of Putin and Putinism, and before that Hitler and Nazism, is and always had been with a bullet.

When you are talking about a king, a charismatic leader, a person in whom the whole of the state is contained, the only way to stop that man is to stop that man.

Not only was that bullet astonishing, but the very fact that a 20 year old boy could get off that shot, and several others with an attack rifle, not a sniper rifle with a telescopic sight, and come so close is amazing.  For any aficionado of youtube gun channels, it is patently clear that even crack shots have trouble hitting targets much larger than Trump's head from 150 yards.

Hitler's trousers shredded by the blast

So, in a way, this failed attempt is redolent of that Valkyrie assassination attempt on Hitler, which left der Fuehrer unscathed. 

The room where the bomb exploded

Wehrmacht soldiers swore allegiance not to Germany, but to Adolph Hitler, der Fuehrer. 

And so it is with Mr. Trump: watch his adoring fans being interviewed at his rallies and it's clear what they are drawn to are not his "policies" if he can be said to have any real policies or beliefs--beyond a belief in that vile infestation sweeping across our Southern border as insane asylum inmates invade.

They love him so!

No, what Trumplings love is Trump. They always grin, talking about him. They find him hilarious.

It's that great line from "Roger Rabbit" when the detective, Eddie, incredulous at discovering Jessica Rabbit is married to the flop eared Roger Rabbit asks what she can possibly see in him and she drawls in her best vampy Kathleen Turner alto, "He makes me laugh."

He makes me laugh...

And many believe Jesus sent him to rescue America.

When an officer placed an briefcase bomb at the feet of Adolph Hitler and it exploded killing most of the staff at the meeting and wounding others, Hitler was unharmed, although his trousers were shredded, and der Volk all across Germany took this as proof that Almighty God was smiling upon and protecting Hitler. German soldiers wore belt buckles that said, "Gott Mit Uns"--God is with us.

Latter day historians have noted that following his escape, Hitler took complete control of Germany's armies and made one horrendous decision after another, from July, 1944 until everything collapsed in May, 1945.  Had he been killed, the Germans might have made peace with the Western Allies and even with Russia, and nobody would have ever known about the Holocaust and Nazi Germany might have survived in some form, rather than being completely annihilated and crushed. 

So it may be the hand of Almighty God spared Mr. Trump for a reason.

Lincoln confronted this question of what God intended by allowing the Civil War to rage on for 4 years with such great cost in lives and property. That catastrophe cost more American lives than all of America's other wars combined. And Lincoln asked why would God want to visit this catastrophe upon a righteous land? His answer: every drop of blood drawn by the [slavedrivers'] lash had to be paid for by a drop of blood drawn by the sword. In other words, less elegantly, it was pay back for hundreds of years of slavery. America had to answer for that. 

But if you follow the historical lesson, one might conclude the path we are following will be toward incineration, destruction and we can hope only that America will be a new Phoenix arising, as Germany did, from the ashes.