I am relieved.
Now that a week has passed, and people have
processed things a little, I can admit publicly what I have to date only
said to a few close friends.
I am relieved at the outcome of the election.
This
is not to say I am pleased. Regardless of what he said while addressing
the University of Notre Dame, Barack Obama has amply demonstrated his
willingness to ignore the rights of religious entities to exist and to
operate—in ways that go well beyond formal acts of worship—according to
their founding precepts. His administration has demonstrated its
continued intention to “fundamentally transform the United States of
America,” as he put it on November 1, by expanding the reach of
government.
As the president might say, “make no mistake”: We do
not come back from this election, and by “we” I mean America as we have
known it; not with the present culture.
At National Review Online,
Charles C. W. Cooke writes eloquently of this truth, but where he feels
despair, I feel set free. This election has shattered, finally the
illusion that if “good conservatives just keep fighting,” somehow
“another Reagan” was going to come along and restore the “shining city
on a hill”. For too long I have watched friends remain enthralled to the
notion that a single man or woman equipped with rhetorical skills, a
bit of spine, and right-thinking would be able to resurrect what is
remembered by some modern conservatives as a golden age.
Read The Rest. It is well worth your time to do so.
