Whom God Would Destroy…

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By Charlie Johnston

Charleston, South Carolina – Back in the day, when dealing with malevolent opposition, if I had a chance to draw them into battle that would reveal their malevolence, I would take it even if the odds of prevailing in the particular battle were nearly non-existent. Revealing, in a high-profile way, the malevolence of a particular group is money in the bank, long-term. It takes iron discipline, fortitude, and focus to pull it off. But when done successfully, even with a loss in a particular battle, it has the power to destroy the whole malevolent project.

I watch in awe, admiration, and wonder as Donald Trump has put the left and the establishment media in this position. He is winning – and will win – most of the battles on the way to his complete rout of the woke, godless, leftist project in America! Yeah, Trump may lose a nominee confirmation or two…and perhaps a couple of the flurry of lawsuits the Deep State has mounted against his administration. But in doing so, they have made themselves dead men walking. They are busy advocating against the obvious interests of the American people at the top of their lungs. They have shrieked at the top of their lungs over the potential shutdown of USAID, which turns out to be the leftist slush fund for political cronies in left-wing NGOs and fomenting color revolutions to make other countries into the image of woke.

It shockingly turns out that 5,000 people in the FBI were involved in the J6 prosecutions. Sheesh! No wonder the FBI could not stop mass shooters and terror plots that it had been warned about well ahead of the offense. It was too busy persecuting political dissent – jailing people walking through the Capitol, grandmas praying in front of abortion clinics, parents questioning school board members, and traditional Catholics.

In EVERY instance, while Trump is acting to protect the interests of ordinary Americans and to return bureaucrats to the service of the people rather than acting as petty satraps ruling contemptuously over them, Democrats and the media have been publicly and loudly standing with the satraps. Whatever victories the left gains in these fights will be purely pyrrhic – and will lead to their further undoing. It is unhinged madness on the part of the left.

I really think there is a reasonable chance that before Trump’s term is finished, the Democratic Party will cease to exist at all. Oh, there will be an opposition party, but it will likely be a left-leaning party that is not moonbat insane. The current model for Democrats and media, for all the snorting, shrieking, and obscene caterwauling on behalf of an unaccountable Deep State just isn’t sustainable. When your primary message to the public you are supposed to serve is that there must be NO accountability for bureaucrats or the money they spend and, hey, let’s hire 80,000 new IRS agents to investigate you, you are headed to the ash heap of history no matter how many normal folks you burn along the way.

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The air traffic controllers for the tragedy over Washington, D.C. last week were short-staffed. Turns out once the FAA decided to prioritize DEI in hiring, 2,000 qualified applicants had been turned away because they were white men. When your devotion to DEI is so dedicated that you would rather hire no one at all rather than hire a white man your insanity has not just metastasized; it has gone terminal. DEI was touted as being a palliative for the Jim Crow laws of 70 years ago. Turns out DEI was just Jim’s brother, Jack, in blackface. Good riddance to both of the Crows.

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Who would have thought there would be a gang of radical, vegan, transgender, serial killers rampaging across the country? But there is. The murderers of the Vermont Border Patrol Agent on inauguration day are tied to this group. This has got to be the most Biden-Harris woke era story ever. No formal word yet on whether Democrats and the media will condemn the killings or declare it a big step forward for vegan trannies in their fight for equality with more traditional cisgender, white, male serial killers.

Can you see now why, for most of my life, I could not fully believe what I was seeing in my purported visions? I could not get too worked up against folks who thought I was just a bit crazy in a functional way, because from 1963 until the mid-90’s, that seemed the most likely explanation to me as well. I have not enjoyed watching the fevered visions of my youth become our daily reality, but it is incredibly comforting to watch the dawn of a great awakening. And now, if we stay awake with steady resolve, our long, global nightmare will lift and whimper away in the light of reality.

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I have always been a free trader – but with a caveat. I think free trade best serves all nations. However, allowing one side to mount tariffs and massive restrictions while the other does nothing to protect its markets is NOT, to my mind, free trade. It is more like knowingly sitting in a fixed poker game, thinking you can make up your mounting losses by playing harder. That’s just a formula for going bust quickly. Free trade must be accompanied by what I call “mirroring.” That means my country supports fundamentally pure free trade – so we will trade with yours on the same terms you trade with ours. If you want hefty tariffs and restrictions, we will apply identical terms to anything you want to sell in our country. That is what I mean by free trade.

That being said, I also agree – with Ronald Reagan – that punitive tariffs are a good short-term tool in geopolitical diplomacy. Donald Trump is making that into an art form. Huzzah!

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Our own Sheryl Collmer’s latest piece in Crisis Magazine is one of her very best ever. The first few weeks of the Trump administration has been an ongoing celebration of traditional Americanism that makes people like me simultaneously giddy with joy and flushed with blessed relief. Sheryl’s piece captures that dichotomy as well as any I have seen.

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About a month ago I told some folks that I was going to ask Bishop Joseph Strickland to speak at our CORAC Conference this summer (July 11-13). I waited until we had the venue contracted and plans were concrete. Alas, some folks started repeating this in the form that Bp. Strickland WOULD speak there. I guess some people think I need merely say the word and it is done. They have me badly confused with Someone Else. Bp. Strickland currently has other obligations at that time and will not be able to speak at our conference. I am keeping the slot open for a few weeks in the hope that the conflicts might be lifted and arrangements made. But it does not look likely.

The major subtheme I am working to display with the speakers at this conference is the celebration of people who showed courage when it was most needed, when there was a price to be paid for speaking up. Confirmed are Kansas State Sen. Mike Thompson, who along with John Coleman of Chicago, was one of the very few chief meteorologists in major television markets to push back against “climate change” hysteria. Also speaking is David Daleiden, founder and president of the Center for Medical Progress, whose decade-long battle against Planned Parenthood and abortion has been downright legendary. Bp. Strickland would have been a great addition, as he has balanced his authentic duty of fidelity to the Magisterium with his authentic duty of obedience to authority better than any Catholic public figure out there – and at great personal price.

People who are in a position to do this and actually do so are the real people who make things better, safer, and freer for all of us – and they should rightly be celebrated as the heroes they are. As fast as things are going right now, new heroes are emerging every week. There is no shortage of heroes we will be able to get for our conference. If, somehow, Bp. Strickland’s scheduled commitments cleared up and left an opening, I would love to have him. But we will have a hero. I would tell you some of the names I have in mind, but…

Meantime, may you all keep in mind, when I voice a wish, that my wish is no one’s command. But I’ll keep on plugging – and I am grateful so many of you are plugging along with me.

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29 thoughts on “Whom God Would Destroy…”

  1. Thanks be to God throughout eternity for what is unfolding before our eyes!! May we carry on with gratitude as we TNRS throughout this leg of life’s journey – and for the rest of our lives, ready to do whatever He asks of each one of us!!

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  3. Personally, Charlie, you are definitely one of the heroes. 😉

    Can you please tell me the name of the artwork for this piece? It’s powerful.

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    1. 100% agree, Jewelsword: Charlie most certainly is a hero of our times. Best of all, he wears it well: in humility with integrity and in keeping his focus on his mission. He lives Take the Next Right Step in the myriad dimensions of his work. The art piece is the Destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah by Jules Joseph Augustin Laurens.

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  6. The tranny serial killer cult is actually VEGANS, not vegetarians. Big difference, in my opinion. Vegetarians can at least get the protein and healthy fats that come from foods such as eggs and cheese and other dairy products. It’s almost impossible for a vegan — who consumes no animal-derived foods whatsoever — to not develop nutritional deficiencies. When you add malnutrition on top of all the wild disorders that develop in the body when one alters its natural hormone balance in the way that “transgender” pharmaceuticals do, the brain simply does not function normally. No wonder they’re bat**** insane!

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    1. You are correct, Creative. My bad. I have often (and sloppily) used vegan and vegetarian interchangeably. I will go back and correct this. Thank you. Trump is cleaning up the government. You have helped inspire up to clean up the cobwebs in my own head. (Thankfully, I keep it pretty well dusted, but there are a few corners which could use some work…)

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  7. Beautiful piece Charlie!!! I can actually feel your happiness, light heartedness and newfound joy through this piece now that President Trump is taking a sledgehammer to the woke ideology in DC and around the world at Sonic speed!!! Wow!!! What a glorious time to be alive!!!

    It’s good to see everyone so happy again! We were all so tired of this fight😩. I personally love seeing people openly wearing crosses on their necks and speaking about Our Lord! It’s sort of refreshing that people aren’t looking at me personally like I’m a Crazy 🤪 woman who can’t shut up about God😂.

    Everyone is being illuminated! Well…. Not everyone, I guess! Gosh the democrats are just totally unhinged right now. It’s sort of shocking 😳 I wonder if that’s what hell is like 😬. Lord have mercy on my soul and all who are ranting against you!!!

    I’ve had this awful bug for a few weeks now😩. It seems everyone is sick! I think the Lord still needs lots of suffering and prayers to renew the face of the earth!🌍

    What a glorious time to be alive!

    Thank you, Charlie!!! Really great and timely piece!!! Praying you are feeling better these days friend of God!

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    1. Hey Madkat, you also put up a link in a separate comment – but had no comment on the link. Remember, one of our comment rules is that links can be used to illustrate a point you are making, but stand-alone links are not allowed. (Except for CrewDog, who is our news aggregator par excellence…but he was given a specific exemption for the purpose of that aggregation.)

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      1. sorry my tablet crashes sometimes mid-post. the link was from the NY Sun Opinión page and was supposed to be part of my comment but now I can’t find the article . User error🙄

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    1. I approved this link because, as Madkat explains, it actually was intended to be included with her earlier post – so she did (kind of) follow the rule…just in two-step fashion. That’ll do this time. But let’s have no three-step waltzes. 😉

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  10. Love reading it all, Charlie! Yes, there is such joy to see it all happening, but a bit of trepidation. As everyone descries it, the left is “unhinged”! Even a dem quote I saw, asked if they have learned anything?! They live in another universe, unable to see truth under their noses.

    But I’m happy to see you optimistic, Charlie. Gives us hope, once again! Praise God

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  12. Gotcha on the never ending bug Linda!

    I normally get over bugs in a few days but with the unpresidented cold here in FL along with the unpresidented amount of construction needed from all the storm damage and now the added stress of 5 friends and relatives passing away within less than a 2 week period, I’m back with a bug again! Not sure if it’s a lingering bug or a whole new one but life has been pretty hard lately.

    Expiatory prayer on steroids here!

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  14. Great short round-up, Charlie!

    One thing I’m following: Suddenly upon the scene we have the young genius DOGE Musketeers legally showing up in places like the Office of Management and Budget and Treasury to quickly uncover and publicize the vast tentacles of corruption in taxpayer-funded agencies like USAID.

    Indeed, what a time to be alive! Thank you, God!

    Sister Bear

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  15. JESUS, I TRUST IN YOU! … PS    😉

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    https://x.com/RSBNetwork/status/1887249809397956913

    https://www.lifenews.com/2025/02/05/usaid-spent-607-million-promoting-abortion-worldwide-thankfully-trump-defunded-it

    https://links.glennbeck.com/view/55d278157d0973635efe6258mwrmo.1obi/fdf0f53d

    https://patriotpost.us/digests/114270-mid-day-digest-2025-02-05

    https://newsbusters.org/

    https://dailycaller.com/

    GOD SAVE ALL HERE!!

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  16. JESUS, I TRUST IN YOU! .. Happy Day!!  😉

    https://www.catholicculture.org/commentary/should-biden-be-excommunicated-for-joining-masons/

    https://catholicexchange.com/defeating-modernism/

    https://catholicfamilynews.com/

    https://catholicexchange.com/lack-of-silence-spiritually-impacts-us/

    https://www.catholicleague.org/buttigieg-flees-world-of-they-them-theirs/

    http://blog.newadvent.org/2025/02/7-more-bible-verses-every-catholic.html

    https://life-craft.org/the-best-reason-to-read-aloud-together/

    https://www.ncregister.com/commentaries/manners-methods-and-greatness-weigel

    https://onepeterfive.com/trad-questions-between-clergy-and-laity-a-brief-response-to-fr-brownson/

    https://www.thelibertybeacon.com/we-are-watching-a-rapid-re-ordering-of-how-the-world-works/

    https://townhall.com/tipsheet/mattvespa/2025/02/06/wait-usaid-was-involved-in-the-2019-impeachment-of-donald-trump-n2651759?

    https://www.declassified.live/p/video-summary-about-those-5000-fbi

    https://thenewamerican.com/features/govt-data-politico-took-34m-from-taxpayers-nyt-got-tens-of-millions-more/  ..  https://justthenews.com/accountability/political-ethics/it-was-shuttered-usaid-routed-funds-soros-causes-terrorists-and

    https://topsecretumbra.substack.com/p/who-really-is-angela-merkel-a-counterintelligenc  ..  https://modernity.news/2025/02/05/nearly-half-of-germans-feel-unsafe-in-their-own-neighborhoods-thanks-to-mass-migration/

    https://crisismagazine.com/

    https://www.newoxfordreview.org/daily-news/

    https://catholicvote.org/read

    https://stream.org/category/us/

    https://www.frontpagemag.com/

    https://thedailybs.com/news/

    https://www.zerohedge.com

    GOD SAVE THE REPUBLIC & ALL HERE!!

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  17. JESUS, I TRUST IN YOU! … PS    😉

    https://www.newsmax.com/us/faith-commission-anti-christian-bias/2025/02/06/id/1198048/

    I’m really concerned about Trump being the 1st Prez to go to a Super Bowl… and in New Orleans!!?? .. which has been a Focal Point of Evil OPs for two hundred + years …. Voodoo, Corrupt Politics, MAFIA, Sin-City long before Vegas ….. ;-( I sure hope the VP has got a very safe place like a Command & Control Bunker where he and The Essential Folks can watch The Game!! PRAY HARD!!

    https://www.public.news/p/both-usaid-and-the-cia-were-behind

    The DC Swamp Bigs (RINOs too) are in The Crosshairs and THEY Don’t Like It & will NOT submit sans major unpleasantness! It ain’t over till it’s over … over ain’t gonna be soon! ;-(  ..  https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/

    https://www.realcleardefense.com/articles/2025/02/05/the_armys_special_treatment_of_capt_rebecca_lobach_1089352.html

    https://www.americanthinker.com/

    https://www.wnd.com/category/front-page/

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    https://patriotpost.us/digests/114315-mid-day-digest-2025-02-06

    https://floppingaces.net/

    https://newsbusters.org/

    GOD SAVE ALL HERE!!

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  18. JESUS, I TRUST IN YOU! .. Happy Day!!  😉

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    https://www.catholicculture.org/commentary/conundrum-parish-involvement/

    Pastor Dana  ..  https://youtu.be/tXTpz8E02Ho

    https://crisismagazine.com/opinion/rfk-and-the-silencing-of-debate

    https://www.catholicleague.org/trump-names-task-force-on-anti-christian-bias/

    https://redstate.com/bobhoge/2025/02/07/how-is-elon-finding-despicable-govt-waste-so-quickly-he-has-a-secret-weaponand-its-intelligent-n2185309  ..  https://thefederalist.com/2025/02/07/doge-is-deadly-to-the-swamp-and-a-ray-of-light-for-the-american-taxpayer/  ..  https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2025/02/07/the-baseline-premise-surfaces-doge-downloads-govt-data-to-evaluate-efficiency/

    https://reclaimthenet.org/senators-witnesses-slam-biden-debanking-operation-choke-point

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    https://x.com/jk_rowling/status/1887472120541679690

    https://andmagazine.substack.com/p/the-cia-is-broken-it-will-take-more

    https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/02/protecting-second-amendment-rights/

    https://hotair.com/

    https://thedailybs.com/news/

    https://www.zerohedge.com

    https://links.glennbeck.com/view/55d278157d0973635efe6258mxkt7.1rem/7042b223

    https://newsbusters.org/

    GOD SAVE THE REPUBLIC & ALL HERE!!

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  19. Charlie, free trade, or lack of it, was the subject matter that turned me Republican back in the mid 90’s. I used to read Pat Buchanan and he was against NAFTA. He then ran for President with a platform of fair trade which is what you are saying above. Of course, the left and their lapdogs – now known as the paid leftist media- made Pat out to be a nut. I probably said this here before but Pat Buchanan was Trump before Trump was Trump. I love them both.

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  20. JESUS, I TRUST IN YOU! .. Happy Day!!  😉

    https://crisismagazine.com/opinion/heroes-of-the-vendee

    https://www.catholicculture.org/commentary/remarkable-resurgence-catholic-education-and-formation/

    https://www.ncregister.com/blog/ghostly-encounters-cry-for-help

    https://www.pillarcatholic.com/p/walk-humbly-college-politics-and

    Unlike the the Lavender LeftFringe Natl. “Catholic” REPORTER”, I am NOT saddened that “Catholic” Charities can no longer aid & abet Illegal Alien Invasion!!  ..  https://www.ncronline.org/news/exclusive-catholic-relief-services-lays-staff-cuts-programs-after-usaid-shakeup  ..  https://www.lifesitenews.com/analysis/the-truth-about-catholic-relief-services-it-is-not-merely-a-non-profit-that-helps-the-poor

    https://www.ncregister.com/blog/face-of-aquinas-revealed-after-750-years

    https://thefederalist.com/2025/02/07/we-still-need-answers-to-the-many-unanswered-questions-about-jan-6/

    https://reclaimthenet.org/uk-government-secretly-orders-apple-to-build-global-icloud-backdoor

    https://www.theburningplatform.com/2025/02/07/the-covid-pandemic-was-fake/#more-360221

    https://townhall.com/tipsheet/mattvespa/2025/02/08/dem-donor-after-disastrous-cnn-debate-hunter-commandeered-the-white-house-n2651894

    https://babylonbee.com/news/country-with-record-illiteracy-worried-what-will-happen-if-education-system-reformed

    https://catholicvote.org/read

    https://stream.org/category/us/

    https://thedailybs.com/news/

    https://www.zerohedge.com

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/

    https://www.wnd.com/category/front-page/

    GOD SAVE THE REPUBLIC & ALL HERE!!

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  21. JESUS, I TRUST IN YOU! .. Happy Day!!  😉

    https://catholicexchange.com/we-the-unworthy-fifth-sunday-in-ordinary-time/

    https://media.benedictine.edu/this-sunday-when-almighty-god-shows-up-unexpected-5-fifth-sunday-takeaways

    http://blog.newadvent.org/2025/02/february-is-month-dedicated-to-holy.html

    https://x.com/SecretFire79/status/1887984387511185832?mx=2

    https://spiritdaily.org/blog/archives/archives-when-the-spiritual-atmosphere-shifts-around-you

    https://www.renewamerica.com/columns/abbott/210406

    Merry SB LIX Day? …. It seem to me that the “news” is eerily quiet on the “Game Security” Front? I awoke in the wee hours, as usual, and thought that the Super Bowl would be a great time for The Lord to manifest Himself in some Great Way. Millions Worldwide will be watching! I remember awakening @ 2AM to watch SB XXV during the Gulf War.  .. https://youtu.be/N_lCmBvYMRs  ..   I’m sure, like many here? I’ve been praying for a Great Manifestation!

    https://x.com/WallStreetApes/status/1887864991560192107?

    https://www.declassified.live/p/from-boast-to-bust

    https://floppingaces.net/2025/02/09/sunday-funnies-832/

    https://theconservativetreehouse.com/

    https://hotair.com/

    https://thedailybs.com/news/

    https://www.zerohedge.com

    https://townhall.com/

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/

    https://floppingaces.net/

    https://newsbusters.org/

    GOD SAVE THE REPUBLIC & ALL HERE!!

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Charlie Johnston is a former newspaper editor, radio talk show host and political consultant. From Feb. 11, 2011 to Aug. 21, 2012, he walked 3,200 miles across the country, sleeping in the woods, meeting people and praying as he went. He writes on cultural, global and political issues from an orthodox Catholic perspective. He emphasizes that we find God most surely through the ordinary, doing the little things we should with faith and fidelity. His constant refrain is that, to live real joy, we must acknowledge God, take the next right step, and be a sign of hope to those around us. He lives in the Archdiocese of Denver in the United States.