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I was originally going to post a reflection piece on this Substack for analyzing what went wrong on Tuesday’s election. I was going to go through the exit poll and vote total data (and because I’m in graduate school, believe me when I say, I do love my data sets). I was going to give you, dear reader and beloved fan, a meticulous breakdown of what the Republican Party can do if it wants to be serious about taking back the House of Representatives, Senate, and Presidency in 2024, and a series of policy and media suggestions to accomplish this task. But I’m not going to do that. I’m not going to do this for two reasons, 1) Because it is Sunday, this is the day the Lord has made, let us rejoice and be glad in it, and 2) it would be missing the point. It would be missing the point because the problem with our politics is not just a political one but a moral problem, and that is that we have lost our humanity, our principles and the realization that our opponents are not our enemies and now we must begin the urgent task of uniting our country. I worry greatly, on this Sunday after the midterm election that we are losing the true Christian tradition of brotherhood.

As someone who works in communications and has a deep abiding love of rhetoric, I was recently re-reading Sen. Robert F. Kennedy’s speech to the people of South Africa in 1965, and was touched by the message he gave them about rising above grievance to seek reconciliation among men and the pursuit of a brighter future. He said “Surely, this bond of common faith, this bond of common goal, can begin to teach us something. Surely, we can learn, at least, to look at those around us as fellow men. And surely we can begin to work a little harder to bind up the wounds among us and to become in our own hearts brothers and countrymen once again. The answer is to rely on youth -- not a time of life but a state of mind, a temper of the will, a quality of imagination, a predominance of courage over timidity, of the appetite for adventure over the love of ease. The cruelties and obstacles of this swiftly changing planet will not yield to the obsolete dogmas and outworn slogans. They cannot be moved by those who cling to a present that is already dying, who prefer the illusion of security to the excitement and danger that come with even the most peaceful progress.”

My fellow citizens, my fellow Americans, we cannot afford to go from “We chose to go to the moon” to name calling whenever elections are lost. We have one country and it must be preserved, this is the last bastion of freedom in the world and I believe with all my heart that our story is far from over, in fact, it is just beginning. We will dream, we will dare, we will care, and we will come back stronger than we have ever been. We are still that heroic breed that fought the empires of ages gone by and bested them. We are still the heirs to those that tamed the Wild West, fought the Nazis in Europe, and braved the jungles of Vietnam to extinguish the flame of Communism. We will fight on, we will win, and we will never give in. 2024 is not that far away, and we will fight again, but the objective must be clear, let us dedicate ourselves to the command of Corinthians 2:1-4 “Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of compassion and the God of all comfort, who comforts us in all our troubles, so that we can comfort those in any trouble with the comfort we ourselves receive from God.”

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