President Donald J. Trump boards Marine One on the South Lawn of the White House, Tuesday, October 20, 2026, en route Joint Base Andrews for a campaign trip to Greenville, North Carolina. (Official White House photo by Joyce N. Boghosian)
While media emotions swirl around President Trump, I admit as a lifelong Democrat that it can be hard to see past the shocking things he’s capable of saying. My “Blue No Matter Who” mother would have run screaming from the room. But thankfully, history will see Donald J. Trump with clearer eyes. Let’s hope we can all do the same now as we vote.
Even in a big city like New York, the adults of my youth believed that throughout history, God gives us the president we need to steer us through crisis. Lincoln and Washington were the obvious examples taught by my traditional Christian high school, founded well before the American Revolution. My teachers had a long view and taught it. They understood Providence – God’s hand in the affairs of men.
As a Reagan Democrat, I have always believed this to be true about Ronald Wilson Reagan, a self-described “citizen politician.” Amazingly (I would say miraculously), this grade B actor rose in one giant step to become a successful governor of California – then in 1981, another giant step led to the presidency. And yes, mocked and hated along the way, Reagan was a threat to the established order, just like Donald Trump.
At the start, Reagan’s only political experience was serving as president of the Screen Actors Guild in Hollywood, an odd background for a governor, much less for an historic American president who would go on to win the Cold War, defeating the U.S.S.R. (Union of Soviet Socialist Republics).
Odd, yes. But not as odd as you might think.
What inspired Reagan to action was the same thing that inspired Donald Trump, another American hero, as I described him in a 2016 pre-election column. These two heroes, one from the Greatest Generation and the other a Baby Boomer, both understood the Cold War struggle and the real nature of its threat to freedom, both foreign and domestic.
Bob Just (left), creator of the ‘Teach Freedom’ Award, joins previous winner Jaime Escalante in presenting Ronald Reagan with the award in 1990.
They knew communism was not at heart an economic system. It was a worldview that excluded God. And they knew this mentality had infiltrated America at the highest levels.
Reagan experienced this firsthand while fighting communism’s effort to take over the Screen Actors Guild in Hollywood, even to the point of having to arm himself against their thugs. Communists knew the best way to mold minds was through mass media, something their greatest film director made clear: “Molding the feelings and intelligence of the masses,” said Sergei Eisenstein, “is one of our political problems and for this end we find the movies most effective.”
Think of all the American kids watching movies and other content made in China.
Reagan understood this “molding” and more. He knew the source of communist evil. Listen to America’s 40th president speaking here as he references the great Whittaker Chambers, a communist spy who became a Christian and then in 1949 famously blew the whistle on communist spies in our State Department (later proven true despite Sen. McCarthy’s gross exaggerations).
Addressing the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in 1981, Reagan said:
How many great Christian leaders warned us of this very thing during the Cold War, from Dr. James Dobson to Phyllis Schlafly to D. James Kennedy to Bishop Fulton Sheen? How many great political leaders too – from both parties – especially Ronald Reagan who, like Trump, had once been a Democrat but ended up Republican?
Yes, these two great men were each motivated by the need to oppose a foreign communist threat, but each knew it didn’t stop there. Listen to Reagan warning Americans in 1983 about the struggle against creeping secular socialism in Washington.
President Reagan’s gentle, civilized words of warning were echoed a generation later, but this time by Donald Trump’s more direct approach to defining the domestic threat, which we witness regularly on our college campuses and in our streets.
“You can be loyal to Karl Marx, or you can be loyal to America. You can be a communist, or you can be a patriot. You cannot be both,” Trump declared at Mount Rushmore last July, celebrating the 250th year of our Declaration of Independence.
And to the point in that same speech:
But long before that, early in his first term Trump made clear his views, speaking bluntly to the U.N. General Assembly:
I’m glad Trump tackled that problem earlier this year by capturing and jailing the dictator Nicholas Maduro, giving Venezuelans a chance to rebuild their democracy after decades of a socialist nightmare.
Both Reagan and Trump stand before history as men of action and vision when it comes to facing down communism’s threat to American freedom.
Although Trump forced our Washington elite to face up to the dangers of Communist China, he has developed a careful and friendly relationship with Chairman Xi while reshoring manufacturing, repairing America’s economy, strengthening alliances and aggressively rebuilding our miliary.
Yet, President Trump’s greater focus has been purely domestic, working to confront the Left’s march through the institutions, this tangled web of influencers and enforcers who have “taken upon themselves the job of superintending us,” whether through bureaucracy, law, education, financial institutions or the larger media culture.
The pushback has been fierce, especially as Trump urges Americans to face the more immediate threat of my Democratic Party, which increasingly submits to socialist views and promotes radical ideas like packing the Supreme Court and abolishing the Electoral College, not to mention ICE.
I’ve talked on the air and written about this for decades, trying to wake blindly loyal Democrat voters from their false beliefs about our party leaders’ intentions.
No, they don’t love us. They love power over us.
We face a crucial decision now, and another life-or-death one in 2028. The lying Left, with their fake smiley-faced candidates, no longer deserves executive leadership. We’ve hardly recovered from the fake Biden presidency.
In fact, for the foreseeable future, we Democrats need MAGA Republican patriots to win elections while we attempt to reclaim our party from within and rescue it from socialist fantasies.
Americans can thrive together only when we have two fully patriotic parties. (Imagine having two parties that respect each other, even in disagreement.) We’ll never achieve that with the current Democrat leadership and certainly not while they accommodate the DSA crowd.
We the people need decades to repair our factories, rebuild our families and recover our love of country through good education, rooted in a merciful understanding of our history and a passionate determination to build a future together, despite this dangerous world.
This means teaching freedom to our young, guiding them also to understand those who would undermine their liberty and deny them the security of America’s two great founding documents.
As our glorious semi-quincentennial year draws to a close, it’s certainly time to see ourselves in the cold light of history. Great nations usually fall from within – by forgetting their original vision and ignoring the virtues of the men and women who made that vision come true.
We’ve had two “miracle presidents” in my lifetime, both guarding us against foreign threats while reminding us of our heritage and pulling us back from the brink of national despair.
Socialists are very good at “despair,” constantly accusing, just like the Devil – known also as “the accuser.” We must stop listening to their bitter words that only cause division and never bring about healing.
Remember Ronald Reagan’s “Farewell Warning to the American people.” And while you’re at it, turn down the “Trump hate” volume long enough hear what’s really being said by this man who speaks more of love than any other president. Let yourself be inspired to see the good possibilities that lay ahead for you and those you love, thanks to these two great presidents.
Why not read about their lives? Read about their remarkable rise, one a Hollywood actor, the other a New York City real-estate developer (who oddly, also became a television star). Think how unlikely their life journeys have been and how remarkably they have impacted the world you live in now.
In fact, while you are considering the “coincidences” that created their two presidential stories – truly, God’s providential hand – raise your sights to others of our time, unlikely heroes in this same struggle alongside Trump, Americans who seemed to come out of nowhere to help rescue and revive our country.
Read about America’s greatest modern influencer, Rush Limbaugh, who skipped college to be a radio DJ and ended up carrying “the Reagan Revolution” forward for decades, talking to millions on national radio – influencing Donald Trump himself. Or take another Trump influencer, Sean Hannity, who came from a blue-collar, working-class background and rose to dominate not only national radio but cable news as well with his commonsense “under God” Americanism. Both men were crucial to Trump’s miraculous rise.
Or consider the impossible and uniquely American life of Charlie Kirk, a self-taught high school grad who at 18 started a grassroots youth movement without which President Trump might have lost in 2024. History turned on this young man’s life decisions, a life now lost when he was martyred to the cause of Christ and for the sake of the country he loved. And yet, millions march on because of him.
Do you call this – and many more examples – a coincidence? Really? Such “coincidences” go back to Washington at Delaware, and Lincoln at Gettysburg, and on and on through the fullness of America’s 250-year history.
It is no wonder that generations of Americans credit divine intervention, knowing that God gives us our leaders just as he did in the Old Testament, where good kings were often followed by bad kings and then again by good, all to a point.
As Christians and Jews know, the God of the Bible regularly declares his father heart for his children, and that we should stop rebelling and return to him – all forgiven.
Suffering under bad leaders and then being miraculously rescued by good leaders is a biblical pattern that holds true in life with good presidents like Ronald Reagan and Donald Trump. They stand ready to remind us of who we are as Americans and call us back to faith.
As Reagan said, “Without God, there is no virtue, because there’s no prompting of the conscience. Without God, we’re mired in the material, that flat world that tells us only what the senses perceive. Without God, there is a coarsening of the society. And without God, democracy will not and cannot long endure. If we ever forget that we’re one nation under God, then we will be a nation gone under.”
Sadly, thanks to our secular culture, we are too close to forgetting that we are an historically Christian people long before our founding, and on through our constitutional framing and then through our most difficult trials. Abraham Lincoln’s Second Inaugural Address during the Civil War, now chiseled in marble at the Lincoln Memorial, declares simply that we are a people who “read the same Bible and pray to the same God.”
Yes, the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.
As a Christian and an ex-communist, Whittaker Chambers knew the choice we face is also simple. Either God is Lord, or man is lord. Our system is designed to protect us from the latter – because we know from history that we imperfect humans can’t handle the job of being God, nor can any government we form for that purpose.
Still, young and old fools rush in touting socialism anew, shamelessly asking to lead a free people. And still, young and old Americans stand firm and vote “No thanks!” Our faith in God’s guiding hand is all we need, backed by our best-in-the-world American system of government, which we created and have celebrated together for 250 years.
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