In many ways, it was a gift to President Trump to have that assassin attempt to kill him. Watching him in that rally in Montana, it’s good to see Trump having fun with the issue instead of doing what globalists have been trying to advocate in our culture for a long time now. This ridiculous Beta male approach to problems, crying about their feelings and destroying the concept of masculinity, to surrender to some child-like dependence on the government to be a perpetual parent has not been good. As a man, it feels good to face a bullet and an attempt on your life from those who are jealous of you and want to destroy you. Trump has spent his life building a tough guy image, and he has been challenged in business, of course, and has survived many things that have made him very successful. But until death has come knocking on your door the way it did in Butler, Pennsylvania, you never really know how you will deal with it. It’s a similar anxiety that young boys face when they worry about how they will do in their first fight. And yes, that is a genuine problem for boys. Girls don’t have those same challenges. They have other challenges, but winning fights is something that young men worry about a lot. And men worry even more about facing death with boldness. And Trump, after a lifetime of building his tough-guy brand, was given the ultimate test with an assassin’s bullet. And he passed, surviving and throwing his fists in the air triumphantly. He will go down in history with some of the greatest presidents who have survived such a thing, which positions him well for the kind of leadership most needed now.
One of the things that made General Grant such a great battlefield commander was his coolness under fire. All through the Civil War, he rode his horse through gunfire with projectiles flashing all around him, cannon fire nearly missing his head by inches, and surviving detriments that would have killed most people. The Union Army won the Civil War because of General Grant’s tenacity and coolness under fire. The same could be said of General George Washington, who had displayed similar traits of boldness on the battlefield, especially early in his life during the French and Indian War at Fort Duquesne, also in Pennsylvania. Then, President Jackson engaged in many duels that could have killed him many times. He was shot at and hit many times, sometimes to the point of nearly being killed. And I think of Teddy Roosevelt, who wanted to go to Cuba with the Rough Riders to have an opportunity to shoot another man and to be shot at. It was very important to him to test his valor or to be killed doing it. Later in life, after his first eight years as president, he was running for president again and was shot by an assassin. He finished his whole speech before seeking treatment. This is the kind of behavior that men endeavor to be in. And I understand it very well. I have lived my life in such a way. I have had many guns pointed at me and I know what bullets feel like as they pass near you. And yes, it’s a great feeling to survive those occasions, better than life itself. It’s even better to know that you can be calm under the pressure of fire and face death boldly. You don’t feel like you’re living like a man until you do that a few times.
It is essentially the problem that the Israelites had when God told them to leave the wilderness and attack the Promised Land, the land of Canaan, which is still a point of contention. At first, the spies seeking a path into battle saw that Canaan was filled with giants, and they refused to attack because they feared what might happen to them against such a superior force. So they turned away from the task as cowards. And God punished them with 40 years in exile until a new generation would head into battle with the trust that God had their back. That is expected in America, with masculinity displayed among the best of our leaders. They did so when given the opportunity to put on the Armor of God and fight in the face of death boldly. Washington did, Jackson, Grant, Teddy Roosevelt, Reagan, and now Trump. By not cowering in fear, which is the point of the exile story in the Bible of the Hebrew people, it points to an alignment toward God’s purposes, and a trust that you are there to do his work. And you are not afraid for your own preservation. Because God has your back. For Trump, surviving that bullet gave him the assurance he needed to know that he was on the right path and that he dared to stand up to it. And I’m sure he slept very well that night and ever since. Because those are the fundamental rules of the universe. Not this woke garbage of manhood that the progressive, communist, left has been trying to sell to the world. For all the same reasons, Israel turned away from the challenge of attacking the land of Canaan the first time when God told them to.
Behind a coward is to say that a person, especially a man, did not trust to put on the Armor of God and proceed with destiny boldly and without fear. We should not be afraid because to fear is to say that you do not trust that God is with you and will let you perish before you accomplish your task of divine intervention. The gunslingers of history, leaders such as Grant, Washington, and Jackson, threw caution to the wind often and faced down gunfire without blinking an eye for self-preservation. We love the stories of Wyatt Earp and the OK Corral because he faced gunfire without fear and brought justice to the bad guys. That’s why we like stories of Wild Bill Hickok, who often was the last to shoot in a gun duel but was the one who hit his target cooly and under tremendous pressure. We don’t like men who cry like babies when danger is near. Or who looks at their mother’s skirt for shelter from danger? Or to a skirt of mother government. We like bold, unshakable men, who will look down a bullet without fear and know that their destiny is in boldness. And that they can face down fear without reservation and show great tenacity when challenges come knocking at their door. They don’t sip on lattes and eat pastries when trouble shows itself. They meet those challenges with courage and persistence. The way that Trump did at Butler, Pennsylvania. And in many ways, he shook off a dark cloud hanging over America for many years. God’s plan was working; he trusted in it, and many people witnessed it in a way that would bring us all out of exile and meet the danger before us in ways that the world has never seen. And when it’s over, we’ll all feel better about our place in history.
Rich Hoffman

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