Speak Now Or Deserve What You Get! Write to Donald Trump!

Politicians are as fickle as false lovers. They say whatever they think they need to say in order to win or stay in office. As Lord Acton said, "Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely." And we've seen the corruption of good men over and over in politics.

I spent a number of years working for the Republican party in a somewhat lackluster way. Politics was never something I enjoyed. In the early days back in the 1970s and 80s, all the pro-life politicos told us to just shut up about abortion during campaigns because it only lost them votes.

One of those politicians, a practicing Catholic, often spoke at pro-life events. He told us bringing up abortion had only one result -- fewer votes. So the tendency was silence, a big mistake. That particular politician, Joe Gartlan, I knew casually because he was a member of my parish, St. Louis in Alexandria, VA. I was the pro-life chairman there for a number of years. A good friend on my committee was also good friends with Joe. She told me about a dinner once where she and her husband sat with the Gartlans and he made comments that indicated his betrayal of the pro-life cause. We'd seen it coming but to hear about the joking about babies' lives made me a bit sick.

Another Catholic lawyer I knew, Bill Dolan, ran for Attorney General of Virginia. He once was part of a team of pro-bono lawyers who defended those of us who were "sitting in" at abortuaries often shutting them down for half a day or more and saving lives. He abandoned his pro-life position when he decided to run for public office as a Democrat. Being pro-abortion was the litmus test for candidacy. He obliged. I helped Jim Gilmore defeat him in 1993. Both of these men, Gartlan and Dolan, illustrate the power of politics to corrupt. They abandoned an essential element of their faith by abandoning the least of God's little ones for the moth and rust of the dystopian world of the Democrats.

Joe Gartlan died in 2008; Bill Dolan died last May. I'm having a Mass said for each of them. Despite their betrayals, they once defended the little ones and I choose to remember them for that and pray for their salvation. I hope they both repented of their betrayal before they died. "For what shall it profit a man, if he gain the whole world, and suffer the loss of his soul?" But for the state senate of Virginia or the office of Attorney General?

Really? Were they channeling Richard Rich who perjured St. Thomas More to be named Attorney General for Wales?

Which brings me to the latest pragmatic politician who considers the pro-life issue a liability, Donald Trump. He has been running away from his former position which is jeopardizing a significant voting block. Michael Matt discussed it in a recent post predicting that Trump will "pivot back":

Between now and the election, Team Trump will make a dramatic pivot back to the pro-life base. My guess is that this will happen sometime between now and mid-October.

What do we do in the meantime? Speak now or forever hold our peace. If Trump loses in November, that will be on us for failing to call him back to his duty to defend the unborn.

In the unlikely event that Trump wins in November – after having sold out his pro-life base – the pro-life movement will never recover and will have become a politically irrelevant liability to every “conservative” contender from now on. That’s when we become just like Europe, and the wrath of God will be on us all.

Either way, we need to speak out now, reminding Mr. Trump that we stood with him through it all. We gave him the “W” in 2016, people went to prison for him in 2020, and we’ve all earned the right to demand more from him here in 2024. And that’s what we intend to do from now until he returns to the pro-life position that got him elected the last time and without which, I believe, he cannot win this time.

Think of the impact if thousands of pro-lifers blow the trumpet and raise the distress flags urging Donald Trump to act like a man and defend the babies, especially the littlest one living in freezer gulags. You can send him a message at this website. There are other ways of contacting him discussed at Wikihow. I also suggest sending a message to Melania. She identifies as a Catholic. No one but God knows how sincere her faith is, but let's presume the best. I will be sending a message to both of them.

And, of course, pray! Whenever I worked for a politician I prayed that, if winning would result in his damnation, he would lose. I'm praying that now for both Donald Trump and Kamala Harris. Maybe the answer to that prayer is a pair of strokes or heart attacks. 

I dread to think of Harris/Walz winning, but I never put my trust in men (or silly, brainless women) and if we end up with the team of commies, God will use it to bring about good. After all, there are no atheists in a foxhole and we will all be in the trenches if Harris becomes tyrant in chief manipulated by her puppet masters. (Can they please use the string that shuts her mouth and suppresses the giggle.)

Please don't remain silent. Send a firm but respectful message to Donald Trump. Urge him to make that "dramatic pivot back", one that is sincere and from the heart. He wished the Blessed Mother a happy birthday on September 8th. Let us ask Our Lady to intercede for the man who brought back Merry Christmas that he might become a great lion for God like King David. They both had their grievous sins of lust and murder, but no one is beyond repentance and redemption. And neither of them blasphemed God. David, flawed as he was, is described in scripture as a "man after God's own heart". I'm not ready to say that about Trump, but he could be. Let's pray for it.

Lord Jesus Christ, have mercy on us.

Our Lady of Victory, pray for us.

St. Joseph, pillar of the family, pray for us.