(...)And what President has ever said what Trump has said about the unborn? Quoth Trump at the National Prayer Breakfast: “All children, born and unborn, are made in the holy image of God. Every life is sacred and every soul is a precious gift from heaven.” And who but Trump would have said the following during a State of the Union address delivered days after New York’s legalization of infanticide: “Lawmakers in New York cheered with delight upon the passage of legislation that would allow a baby to be ripped from the mother’s womb moments before birth. These are living, feeling, beautiful babies who will never get the chance to share their love and dreams with the world.”
I am convinced Trump sincerely he believes he has kept his pro-life promise with Gorsuch and Kavanaugh. And I remain convinced (or at least hopeful) that neither man will render that promise vain. Also convinced of this are Trump’s demonically enraged opponents, who in recent days have opened up innumerable new avenues for harassing him and his family with endless partisan investigations in a desperate bid to remove him from office before he can appoint a replacement for the little tyrant Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who at this point appears to be pretending to be capable of serving on the Court. I agree with George Neumayr’s conclusion that “Christians bet on Trump and won.” As he observes:Obama imposed a contraceptive mandate on Christians; Trump has lifted it. One of his finer moments was inviting the Little Sisters of the Poor to the Rose Garden to assure them that their ‘long ordeal was over.’ Under Obama, the Justice Department and Health and Human Services routinely harassed the religious. Now those agencies have adopted specific policies to protect them. “The sun is shining right now in America when it comes to our First Amendment freedoms,” Tony Perkins of the Family Research Council has said.His most enduring contribution to the defense of religious freedom is likely to come in the form of an improved judiciary, upon which he has placed a significant number of originalists. This last week on the Supreme Court we saw a Bush appointee, John Roberts, vote to block a pro-life Louisiana law while Trump’s appointees, Gorsuch and Kavanaugh, voted to let it go forward — a reminder of why the religious right lost any confidence in the establishment GOP and was willing to give Trump a chance.
But whatever one thinks of Trump, the fury of his deranged opponents demonstrates that, unlike all the establishment Republicans he trounced in order to win the Presidency, he has succeeded in stomping on the Devil’s tail. And that is the only reason all hell has broken loose in Washington and throughout a global ruling class that lusts after the destruction of this most inconvenient man.