The question that stands before us this new year is a question that hasn’t been asked for the 244 years of our presence on the world’s stage. This election won’t be about personalities or policies or partisanship. This election is entirely existential -- will we continue in relative peace and freedom and the resultant prosperity? Will we continue trying to perfect the nation our forefathers designed? Or will we throw in the towel and declare the greatest social/governmental experiment in human history to be an abject failure? Will we choose to just crawl back into the cave of tyranny and poverty, the cave we thought we’d sealed off with the Constitution?

If we choose to stay the course, rocky though it may be, and insist on finishing what those great men and women began, it won’t be easy. During this coming year our nation is likely to be shaken to its foundations either by the indictment and trials of powerful individuals, or by the lack thereof.  The left may stop threatening to kill the president and actually do it. It is quite possible that our southern borders will be overrun. It’s even more likely that we will be traumatized again and again by Islamic incursions, both anti-Semitic and anti-American. It’s looking like some terrible showdown is brewing in Virginia over the right to bear arms, and who knows what will happen with Iran, North Korea, or China? We must choose our leadership wisely.

We can be sure that Our Lady of Perpetual Impeachment will continue to plot with Lord Lies-a-lot to rid themselves of both Trump and Pence. Whether visions of a crown dance in Our Lady’s head, or she’s stuck and has no idea what to do next is hard to know. But we can tell that she has succeeded in decapitating the impeachment clause of the Constitution and has defied the 4^th, 5^th, and 6^th Amendments. They have presented a forbidden bill of attainder in accusing Trump of crimes whose nature keeps morphing into more and more nebulous shapes, making impeachment a never-ending part of the landscape of Washington. That we will just have to live through -- unless she is voted out of office -- can we dare hope?

That the leftists are willing to cripple our Constitution, hence crippling us all, in the service of their own political corruption should give us all pause, and yet I still hear decent, law-abiding people ranting about never voting for Trump.  “Why not?” is always answered with such profundities as, “He’s an a**hole,” or “His tweets, or “ He’s not presidential.” Whatever that means.

Were there a viable, responsible, clear-thinking candidate to run against Trump in November, small things might make the difference.  But this year we choose between a man who has been doing the job splendidly and Corruption Central. It won’t matter much which of the primary candidates ends up in front -- they are all primarily against the ideas that have made this country the best thing to have ever happened to humanity. They are against the sovereignty of the individual, against sovereignty of the states, and against the sovereignty of this nation. They are for extravagant spending and taxation, against the right to defend oneself, against the right of a baby to be born, against truth, and logic, and reality. Every one of them raised a hand when asked if they supported the Green New Deal, the most incoherent, unrealistic, ridiculous proposal ever conceived.

And yet people who vote still say things like “Trump is against veterans,” when he donates his salary to their cause. They accuse him of lying but aren’t at all bothered by Warren’s prevarications or Biden’s dissociative fugues. They fuss about Trump’s hair, his speech patterns, his full-speed-ahead style. And meanwhile back at the Washington ranch, Democrats are plotting how to cut American citizens out of our birthright, how to deny us the right to choose our leadership.

So, how are we going to protect that birthright?

First we need to thank God that we have a president who is going to be hard to beat. He’s not at all hard to defend; his accomplishments these last three years have been astonishing. So let’s not hesitate to stand up for him; he is standing up for us.

Secondly, we have to hold steady during everything the left will throw at us in the coming months. They may come for our guns and people may die. They may come for our homes –- the recent attack on the Michigan Amish, and the talk about outlawing single-family homes in the name of climate change -- and that would certainly cause a ruckus. If the deep-state criminals are finally arrested and tried, the left will go ballistic and our cities will become battlegrounds.

Thirdly, we have to talk –- to everyone we can reach -- and spread the truth because the media won’t do it. We need to spread the political truth and we need to be open, willing, and ready to spread the truth of God, because without His guidance and power we are truly doomed. We are up against a gargantuan propaganda machine -- the media, the churches, the schools both public and private, the arts, and corrupt corporations are all aligned against us, but, God willing, we can prevail. Our Founders didn’t stand a chance against the British, but they won. God was willing.

Our Lady of Perpetual Impeachment needs to be sent packing. Lord Lies-a-Lot needs to be indicted, along with dozens of other treasonous swamp-dwellers. Our schools need to be set free from national and statewide meddling. Dozens of federal agencies need dismantling. We’d be better off without the Federal Reserve. The border needs closing, the mentally ill need to be cared for, the opioid crisis needs addressing. We have huge problems that require the attention of intelligent, hard-working, selfless people and if we choose badly, any one of these challenges, and a dozen more, could sink this ship of state.