The Reason Americans Chose Trump

They understood that past presidents were presiding over America’s wreckage. Trump promised to change that, and we knew that he would keep that promise.

Anthony J. DeBlasi | April 9, 2026

Some thoughts and notes I recorded two decades ago may help explain why Trump became president...

As a writer, had I chosen to be an historian, I would have written a history of the West that showed how haters of Christ plotted from Year One to block the Voice of the Creator in human affairs. I would start by demolishing the myth that Christianity is a set of opinions of any person or group and show that Christianity is the best link in human endeavors to the source of our being, God—in simpler words, the best path to our physical and spiritual wellbeing. I would go on to show that by deed or by default:

Enlightenment God-haters tried to replace God’s path to wellbeing with mental concoctions derived from reason, which history proves is a plaything in the hands of scoundrels;

Darwinist God-haters wanted to replace God with science, unaware that science is blind to the most important things in life, a long list beginning with love, hate, revenge, conscience, etc.;

Freudian God-haters wanted to explain the growing void in their understanding of human beings by sorting and arranging the gaps in their own minds;

Marxist God-haters wanted to pick up the pieces of failed reason and science, arrange them into lucrative contests between Oppressors and Victims, and play global board games;

Clerical God-haters wanted to preside over the funeral of the Christian church.

God-haters of every description and era have been on a pathological mission to replace God with themselves. Blinder than bats to the limitations of the human mind and the waywardness of the human heart, they persisted like the demons they were, or became, to defy the Voice of God within every human being.

“All forms of life are animated by a power which does not originate within them,” Russell Kirk reminds us, commenting on the metaphysics of Coleridge in his book The Conservative Mind, Chapter IV.

A Purpose, a Will, emanates from God; this Will has created our humanity, and guides us now in ways beyond our understanding, toward ends which even our reason cannot make out clearly. Providence acts through the instincts and intuitions of our feeble flesh. This being so, the man who takes the materialist, the mechanist, and the Utilitarian for his preceptors in the ends of life is a forlorn fool.Advertisement if (window.publir_show_ads) { document.write(''); }

A Purpose, a Will, emanates from God; this Will has created our humanity, and guides us now in ways beyond our understanding, toward ends which even our reason cannot make out clearly. Providence acts through the instincts and intuitions of our feeble flesh. This being so, the man who takes the materialist, the mechanist, and the Utilitarian for his preceptors in the ends of life is a forlorn fool.

And, I would add, a fool who facilitates the grab of power-hungry scoundrels.

Early in the history of the last century, John Randolph of Roanoke noted that Americans

can forge their own chains, and to flatter the people and delude them by promises never meant to be performed is the stale but successful practice of the demagogue, as of the seducer in private life.

can forge their own chains, and to flatter the people and delude them by promises never meant to be performed is the stale but........

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