Looking For Light

LEST WE FORGET, Donald Trump was an illegitimate president, having been elected with a substantial infusion of  Russian assistance, money used to widely spread on social media a massive disinformation campaign against Hillary Clinton, which, say experts, had a definite impact on the election. The Mueller report thoroughly documents this, and Trump supporters, unsurprisingly, dismiss it , not withstanding its accuracy. Imagine the enthusiasm with which Republicans would have embraced Mueller's work had it been directed toward a Democratic president. Imagine the reaction of Trump supporters if Hillary Clinton supporters had claimed massive voter fraud after the 2016 election, as Trump voters are doing now. Allegations that Biden's election was stolen are meritless, ludicrous, and themselves fraudulent, those making the allegations know this, and yet their deplorable behavior continues, just as it has during the entire trump administration.During the entire Trump administration, Trump, his assistants, his associates, and his supporters all behaved deplorably. He told the lies, the rest of them pretended that they weren't lies. We can expect nothing better from them now. Fifty seven percent of white Americans voted for Trump. Even though a perfect storm of circumstances conspired against Trump, notably the pandemic and resulting economic collapse, Trump made it a fairly close election. Without the virus, Trump would have won. When Donald Trump won the presidency, neither he nor his supporters seemed the least bit concerned about any form of voter fraud, including Russian participation. The problem with white Christian American voters is white supremacy, racism, and low morality. America's white christian demographic, just at it fled America's cities when blacks moved in, have fled the mainstream American political system as various minorities move into it, and the white Christian demographic slowly but steadily becomes a minority. They will not go quietly into the night. They elected a racist demagogue as president, and are now venting their anger at his election defeat. Racism and xenophobia emerge directly from within white christian America, embodied in the conservative movement and the Republican party. It is the driving force behind the Trump movement, which predates Trump by centuries. In spirit, the KKK and the John Birch society are alive and well, deeply embedded and hidden within the grand old party, american conservatism, and white Christiandom. As white American conservative Christianity declines, and america becomes more diverse and pluralistic ethnically, a dim but brightening hopeful light becomes visible, flickering in the gathering darkness.