The Democrats believe Trump is a witch

When men choose not to believe in God, they do not thereafter believe in nothing. They then become capable of believing in anything.

— ÉMILE CAMMAERTS

I suppose technically speaking, he would be a warlock. Unless he has undergone that “gender affirmation” mutilation that the Democrats promote for other people’s children.

Which I doubt.

The ancient notion of witchcraft was an understandable aspect of the pre-Enlightenment inability to understand the connections between natural causes and effects, together with the absence of a scientific method of data-gathering and experimentation to discover those connections.

In place of scientific understanding, the workings of the natural world were typically ascribed to magic. Some magic was natural, but other magic was seen as a human tool. Those who practiced magic as a force of good were deemed shamans and the like. Those who practiced magic to malevolent ends were deemed witches. Witchcraft is broadly and flexibly defined as the harmful use of magic.

Witches have been around forever and in most cultures. There’s an account of a witch in the Hebrew Bible. In Europe back in the 1600s, long before gender affirmation mutilation became the all the rage, it was witches who were all the rage.

Once the premises are accepted – that harmful phenomena are caused by magic, and that certain people are capable of that magic – the outcome is logical and certain: There will be a concerted effort to identify those particular people so that they can be prevented from casting their evil spells.

Witch hunting emerged. When bad things happened – and a lot of bad things did happen in the Middle Ages – the people understandably hunted for the witches who caused it.

When the witches were found, and they always were, they were punished and prevented from practicing their toil and trouble. The punishment and prevention were often accomplished with a single act – they were killed. The notorious method of execution was to tie them to a stake and burn them alive, but they were also hanged or beheaded.

Along with measles and small pox, the witch fad crossed the Atlantic to the American colonies. There were witch hunts, trials and executions in what became Blue States such as Massachusetts, Pennsylvania and Maryland. (None in future Red States like Florida or Texas.)

You might ask, how did the un-Enlightened witch hunters identify their prey? Surely the witches were smart enough not to wear conical black hats and fly brooms in the open.

Several identification techniques were employed. One was to single out people who were a little odd. Another was to single out people they didn’t like, especially people they found threatening. Once you narrowed the suspects down to those people, it was not difficult to extract a confession with the use of appropriate tools of persuasion.

The accused seldom was acquitted, in part because no one would risk their own skin by testifying in her favor.

The idea of witchcraft and sorcery is mostly at odds with Judeo-Christian culture. Jews and Christians have their boogeymen, but they usually aren’t human. They’re demons. The medieval Church did some bad things, but they were generally not behind the witch hunts. In fact, they sought to replace the popular and pagan-based belief in magic with something they viewed as more constructive – miracles.

Miracles might be no more legitimate than magic, but at least no one got burned. (But see, Arc, Joan)

Judeo-Christian culture is now on the decline, along with much of the rest of Western Culture. The Enlightenment itself is on thin ice. Merit is being abolished, morality is relative, people are censured and censored for telling the true truth, while false “truth” includes things not factual so long as they’re “true” to the person who wants them to be.

I’d say we’re slouching toward nihilism, but it’s worse than that. The quote above (often mistakenly attributed to G.K. Chesterton) captures it. As people reject millennia of culture, they come not to believe in nothing. Rather, they come to believe in anything. People have a natural need to believe. Take away God, and they’ll substitute something else like . . . witches.

Democrats rejected Judeo-Christian culture years ago. Their last prominent believer was Jimmy Carter, and to this day Democrats hold that against him more than his skyrocketing inflation or the Iran hostage crisis or even the cardigan sweater.

Casting about for substitute beliefs, Democrats have snagged a few pagan beliefs. Worship of Gaia through the cult of global warming is well documented. The afore-mentioned affirmation-mutilation of other people’s children is another. DEI is yet another.

But those are mere ideas, not a person. Democrats need a singular evil person. They need a good boogeyman. Enter Donald Trump.  

Trump is perfect for the role. He’s a little odd. He wears a funny orange hat. He speaks in a way his followers take seriously but not literally – he speaks in parables, exaggerates to make points, engages in rhetorical excesses, and calls people names.  

He seems to have magical powers. As President, he gave us low inflation, high employment, three good Supreme Court nominees, a relatively secure border, Melania, and the Abraham Accords.

For all those reasons, the Democrats dislike him and feel threatened by him.

And so, Trump is the Democrats’ witch. They’ll continue to hunt him with law-fare, SNL-style “comedy” mocking him and his supporters as “deplorables” and “Neanderthals,” half-billion-dollar fines for victimless offenses, a refusal to engage him substantively, and the stealing of a national election if necessary (and maybe just for the ritual of it).

It’s all the modern equivalent of beheading, hanging, and burning at the stake. Recall that a Democrat activist/comedian made a photo depicting her holding Trump’s severed head. And in Shakespeare in the Park, they depicted Trump as Julius Caesar and murdered him.

All the while, the Democrats performing the hunt and the gruesome execution of Trump and anyone who dares defend him will preach that they’re the “party of science.”