Thank you for posting this.
I started listening to Beck when he was the afternoon drive host for WFLA in Tampa, and I would be heading into town to teach evening classes. I knew then he was destined for greater things; I thought he would become GenX’s answer to Rush, and I think he got there, for a while, perhaps a long while.
Like Beck, I supported Cruz in this campaign. Like Beck, I fear that Trump is either going to revert to his Truman Democrat past, or propel us Julius Caesar-fashion to a post-republic nation. Unlike Beck, I realize that worse than a Truman Democrat is a McGovern Democrat, and that Julius Caesar is better than Queen Athaliah, if they are our only choices—and that is a worst-case-scenario Trump: he may well be the Reagan of the 2010s.
The problem is that Beck has let his fear overcome him. To trust God is to walk in His love, not in the fear of this world (I John 4:18). I confess that I fear for the future, and I fear for my children’s future, and I do not necessarily like handing that future over to a man who is more concerned with deals than he is with principle. But the kingdoms of this world is become the kingdom of our Lord, and of His Christ, and He shall reign forever and ever; it is in Him that I put my trust. If Beck, Mormon or no, could put his trust in the One who hung on the cross, and not the one named after the cross, he would be content, and in that contentment do what he had been doing all those years before his recent difficulties: work with conservatives to make America, not just great again, but America again—to use his own word, restore.
[ Like Beck, I supported Cruz in this campaign. Like Beck, I fear that Trump is either going to revert to his Truman Democrat past, or propel us Julius Caesar-fashion to a post-republic nation. Unlike Beck, I realize that worse than a Truman Democrat is a McGovern Democrat, and that Julius Caesar is better than Queen Athaliah, if they are our only choices—and that is a worst-case-scenario Trump: he may well be the Reagan of the 2010s. ]
You have perfectly encapsulated my fears of Trump and my justification for voting for Trump over Hillary Clinton.
I have soured on Cruz for his TPA/TPP/H1B support and his naming H1B Queen Carly as his Veep.
It is no longer who I am voting for, it is now about who I am voting AGAINST, and that would be Against Hillary or Against Bernie.