America is deeply polarized but no longer along the usual lines. It is not a divide between Republican and Democrat or liberal or conservative or rich and poor but rather a divide between the ruling class and the people.
When Donald Trump ran for President in 2016 he was opposed by Republicans and Democrats who are part of the ruling class or what is commonly called the uniparty. Both Democrats and establishment Republicans demonized him but underestimated the groundswell of support he would receive from the people of America and had not prepared an apparatus to keep him from being elected.
They were surprised when he won the election and from that point on became united in their efforts to destroy him.
During his first term he continued to be attacked and vilified by the ruling class made up of the main stream media, big tech, the entertainment industry and the federal bureaucracy, sometimes called the deep state.
In spite of all the obstacles against him the four years of his presidency were some of the most peaceful, safe, healthy, and prosperous of our country‘s history until interrupted by Covid and the chaos that ensued.
His first term ushered in the Make America Great Again movement. All the tactics used against Trump have since been employed against his followers and associates in the MAGA movement.
The hatred of the ruling class for Donald Trump culminated in two impeachments and a historically tainted and questioned election which insured that he would not gain a second term.
But the hatred did not stop there. The last four years we have seen an intensified demonization of Donald Trump comparing him to Hitler and calling him an enemy of democracy.
A new term has been introduced to the American vocabulary: lawfare, the use of the legal system to destroy one’s political opponent.
Through lawfare the justice department and other legal entities have attempted to cripple Donald Trump‘s political organization, strip him of his wealth, and even put him in prison. This all can be lumped together as election interference.
All of these attempts have failed to stop the MAGA movement which is much larger than Donald Trump. It is a movement of the people.
Having failed at all these efforts is it any surprise that someone has finally resorted to violence only a short time after our current president spoke these words “time to put a bull’s-eye on Donald Trump.”
Now to the question why does the ruling class hate Donald Trump?
It is because they hate Christ and Christianity, and the MAGA movement. Donald Trump is the lightning rod of the MAGA movement which the ruling class opposes.
MAGA is a movement back to a Christian nation. Prayer in school, protection of life in the womb, traditional values concerning sexuality, personal responsibility and freedom, the 10 Commandments as a basis of moral and legal law, all these things are opposed by the ruling class, because they threaten their power.
Power is the only absolute of the ruling class.
The 2024 election will be a pivotal point in American history. Will the ruling class continue to keep it’s stranglehold on American freedom or will the people rise up and liberate themselves?
Father Alexis Miller is the pastor of Holy Transfiguration Orthodox Church.
