I’ve been mining this blog for material that I can use in my new project, Accessible Success. I ran across a post from 2016 in which I had some unkind things to say about then candidate Donald Trump. I want to minimize political opinion on the new blog to preserve its redemptive purposes, so I’m following up here.

You might have called me a never Trumper back then, though not so much that I would vote for Clinton. I almost cried when it became evident that he would be the Republican nominee. It seemed to me we had completely lost our way. Then, he won, and I was pleasantly surprised by his actions once in office. He actually did the things he said he would do with few exceptions and those not for lack of trying.

I do think he made some serious mistakes when it came to addressing the pandemic, and I wish he had the humility to admit it. I think they will come back to haunt him in this election cycle. Watch for some of the people who have been all in on the vaccines to change their tune when they sense it might be a point of vulnerability for him.

I find his public persona distasteful and wish he would show a little more grace, but I think he may well be the best candidate to help pull us back from the brink of destruction. In a second term, he has nothing to lose and can afford to aggressively drain the swamp. I think he will, provided our country remains intact enough to hold elections in November and that those elections are at least mostly fair. I may have to eat my words again. Time will tell.

One thing I said before has not changed. Our only hope is to return to God. There is only one messiah, and His name is Jesus. Without a spiritual revival, we will not survive. The only question is how long our destruction will take.