Crisis of manly courage

What we have seen since November 3rd [2020] are the fruits and symptoms of a collapse of manly virtue in our society. Three failures stand out: the failure of state legislatures to assert their Constitutional authority to redress massive and audacious election fraud; the failure of the Supreme Court to adjudicate the Texas law suit; and today, the Vice President taking the easy way out when the Republic itself is at risk.

These three institutions caved to pressure from a quasi-violent political party dominated by radical feminism and antichristian morality. It was a true test of virility and patriotism; none of their challenges were free of risk, even serious risk - of death. Yet they all punted the responsibility of duty in preference to an easy defeat and a comfortable cowering into submission to tyrants who, in the long run will abuse them most of all.

This loss of manly virtue has been eroding our social fabric for decades as fatherhood has itself been both assailed and abandoned. Four in ten baby boys are born today to women who are not married. And that failure of manhood has far-reaching consequences for society as a whole. Today men are more likely to be addicted to pornography than to enlist in the service of their country.

Nature abhors a vacuum and into this vacuum step women - some with the very best of intentions - to lead and to act on behalf of the common good in positions traditionally held by men. I do not blame these women. But if men were behaving like men they would be more content developing the full potential of God-given femininity and our society would be stronger for it.

Now we have a situation where men actually can rally behind a bold and courageous leader but have abandoned him for the greener grass of a false sense of security. This is a national humiliation. The men - of all strata of society - who are seeking the soft landing of encroaching socialism in order to escape the rigorous demands of responsible liberty are abandoning our women and children to the most merciless of all tyrannies. President Trump took on the entire world on our behalf - and won, resoundingly, and almost single-handedly in more ways than we will ever fully comprehend. Yet when push came to shove, the men of state government, the men of the Supreme Court, and even his own right hand man failed him for a lack of courage.

I do not know what comes next in this saga of the American story. I do know this: unless we recover authentic manly virility, we are finished. If there isn't anything worth fighting and dying for, then there isn't anything worth living for, either.

Donald J. Trump did his part.

What about us?

Originally posted 6 January 2021

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