Elections
Transformers
The incoming Trump administration is committed to transforming the federal government which could affect all American society.
Our young kids loved “transformer” toys because they could be manipulated into various shapes. So can whole societies, but that’s a much bigger job.
2025 will be an exciting year in American history when a political tidal wave could transform the USA. Great change doesn’t emerge in a vacuum. It often comes bottom up (a people revolution) and other times, top down (new leadership). Sometimes it is both, simultaneously.
Transformation is the third prong of revival–and the transformers are coming.
Why Washington State Missed The Trump Tidal Wave
I have written previously that the current Democratic Party has gone radically secular. It’s now the anti-God extremist party. Current Dem priorities are at war with our 250-year Judeo-Christian culture through abortion on demand, open borders, gender confusion, denial of free speech, socialist economics, and refusing to prosecute crime.
In 2024, the (Trump) GOP emerged as the pro-faith (and by extension) common sense party. The R’s believe that abortion should be “safe and rare,” want clear borders/legal immigration, take boys out of girls’ sports, support free speech, promote economic freedom, and be just on crime.
Americans turned to the GOP and its moral sanity in the Trump landslide.
Only one state–Washington–became worse (a deeper blue) in 2024.
Here’s why we missed the Trump tidal wave.
Reflections on the Trump Triumph
I first voted for president in 1972–for Richard Nixon. If I’d been eligible in 1960, I would have voted for JFK over Nixon due to his vision and policies (despite his infidelities).
God nudged me to write a book on the 1976 election. Shirley and I cried when Ronald Reagan lost in the primary. We rejoiced four years later when Reagan launched a revolution called “Morning in America.” We were in the crowd near the Capitol Building when he was sworn in on January 20, 1981.
In ten subsequent national elections we voted, prayed, dealt with angst, and felt encouragement in various years. Elections can be like yo-yos (do they still use that name?), but remain amazing tools of free governments to make minor or major societal course corrections.
The day after the Trump Red Wave, here are my reflections on the historic 2024 race.