I did not watch the RNC this week; no desire.
Listening to a podcast about it though revealed something very scary to me. Ominous might be a better word.
Trump opened his speech with some of these words: “I’m not supposed to be here.” Now you can read my previous post about the theory of Divine intervention in his life and this situation for how I feel about that.
What troubled me was the response of the audience after he spoke those words: “Yes you are.” They said them over and over again in unison. When I heard this I was taken back to early film clips from Leni Reifenstahl’s “Triumph of the Will.” Now I’m not going to parrot the early incarnation of J.D. Vance who invoked the name of the “star” of this old documentary and applied it to his now mentor and partner. But the echoes of this are, and I hate to keep coming back to this word, but, scary.