An insight on Trump

Reading Trump's Tweets this morning I saw something. The reason he freaks establishment Republicans out so much is he is constantly not giving a f**k about the Satanic spirit in the people who are against us. Everybody else is afraid of that spirit, and think, "No, don't make them angry! They have the holy and dangerous spirit of Satan! They'll hurt us!" Trump is not only not afraid of it all, but he doesn't play the pilgrim politics game of pretending they're friendly to us whenever they throw us a bone and sound reasonable. He's still like, "F**k off, Pocahontas, we know what you're all about."

Pilgrim politics is a phrase from Meredith Kline. It's what the Israelites engaged in when they were surrounded by the Satanic nations. It's what all Christians have engaged in since Jesus. George W. Bush holding hands with a Saudi sheikh after 9/11. The constant pretending that evil and hatred of Christians is not really there.

But that is all of a past era now. Trump is not engaging in pilgrim politics. He's calling evil what it is. This freaks people out. It's more like consummation ethics rather than the past era of common grace ethics.