Non-Presidents’ Day

by Lee Duigon

February 23, 2023

Presidents Day seemed unusually muted this year. Why?

Some commentators, “Politico” for instance, say it’s because America is sick of presidents. Maybe. I wouldn’t challenge it.

But I think we should be uproariously thankful to Providence that certain people never got to be president. It could be a new holiday: “Non-Presidents Day.” We can rejoice in sorrows that we never had to bear.

Three non-presidents spring to mind, in recent memory.

*Al Gore ran for president after he invented the Internet (so he said) and before he became a zillionaire leading the Global Warming jihad. He has said and done nothing since 2000 to indicate that putting him in the White House as president wouldn’t have been a catastrophe. He never heard of any government whose power he wouldn’t want to expand: he is both a statist and a globalist—a juggling act requiring an enormous amount of insincerity. I really don’t want to speculate on how he would have handled 9/11—do you?

Having muffed it with Gore, Democrats in 2004 resorted to *John Kerry, one of history’s most successful gigolos (how he ever managed that, don’t ask). He has since enjoyed stints as secretary of state and “climate czar,” a position not mentioned in the Constitution. There he has labored tirelessly to erode American sovereignty and put our country under the heel of the World Economic Forum. George W. Bush had his faults, but he did have one thing going for him: he wasn’t John Kerry.

Where did we ever get the idea that a deep disdain for America is something we should look for in a president? Kerry embodies that attitude.

*Hillary Clinton ran in 2016 on the entitlement ticket: her husband was president, therefor it’s now “her turn.” Most Americans she lightly tossed into what she called “a basket of deplorables.” She wants a swollen government, gluttonous for more and more power, with herself at its head and all dissent suppressed by any means necessary. “I want it, I want it!” sums up her philosophy of government. Her reptilian personality makes this hard to swallow.

Imagine the damage any one of those three might have done, ensconced in the Oval Office. Oh, wait—we don’t have to imagine it. We have SloJo Biden.

When you recover from this exercise, then try to imagine all three getting in, one after the other. Talk about a fundamental transformation! The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics collapsed; make was for the USSA, United Soviet States of America.

If you think Big Tech is playing with our minds now, imagine what they’d be doing if we’d had those three in office.

It’s true that President *Batteries Not Included, having defeated straw men John McCain and Mitt Romney, turned race-baiting into a presidential priority and paved the way for “Critical Race Theory,” “gender reassignment,” and calling dissent “disinformation.” Donald Trump came along and did much good, most of which was quickly undone by the Biden Gang. But the Deep State and Our Free & Independent Nooze Media Inc. are determined that that much good must never be done again.

Well… it seems we’ve got a revival going—God knows we need one. Will the Holy Spirit pull us out of the tar-pit? Or should I ask, will we allow the Holy Spirit to rescue us? Here we are on unfamiliar ground.

But it may be for the best.

I have discussed these and other topics throughout the week on my blog, http://leeduigon.com/ . Click the link and visit… while we’re still allowed. My articles can also be found at www.chalcedon.edu/ .

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