@realDonaldTrump In the arc of history Trump was granted a unique chance of heroism. Providence granted Trump, a flawed sinner, a chance at greatness. He chose badly and let it pass him by.
It is almost a Shakespearean drama, his illness just seems to emphasize that we are
inside the falling action of a play - the working out of
choices and themes that were established months ago.
While we pray for his quick recovery - his failing action in the 2020 drama could have spared lives.
However, we cannot behave as though life isn’t just one accident after another, as though narrative lines in history actually exist, as though our choices are woven into patterns and not just left to unspool randomly.
The president’s affliction, in this sense, is woven intimately into the larger story of 2020 and his administration’s rendezvous with pestilence — a story whose might-have-beens could have redeemed his vices, but
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