Pat just doesn’t want to be having to say that God made a mistake. He’s setting up the thesis that Trump was the man God selected and he blew it.

Yeah, my thought is that Paul is an idiot.

Rings true! I have indeed heard of those “pop psych books” …

Dwight Pentecost was a Theologian at Dallas Theological Seminary. He wrote a book called “Things To Come” that I would recommend to anyone who wants to understanding the Premill, Pretrib view. It can be viewed on Amazon.

This is Rand Paul, remember.
Long ago, I stopped trying to figure out what galaxy that guy is calling from.

Have you ever heard of a Seventies pop psych book called Games People Play? A companion to the better-known I’m OK, You’re OK, it coined the term “Mind Games”.

One of the Mind Games it catalogs is called “Tough Guy”, where a small or weak man hangs out with REAL Tough Guys and imitates them to show How Tough I Am (Really! I Am!). The type example I they gave was that of street kids hanging out with hardened criminals.

I see this Tough Guy dynamic at work with “Trumpy-Pumpy”.
Putin is a Tough Guy.
Duterte is a Tough Guy.
Erdogan is a Tough Guy.

I believe a study has shown that those most fearful of immigrants interact with said refugees/immigrants the least…

That’s a common pattern.
Especially if the immigrants they interact with make some effort to integrate/assimilate. Speaking English (or at least making a good attempt) seems to be the key; if the immigrants speak English (even accented) and make some effort to fit in, a lot of Americans will cut them some slack.

The exact same dynamic as the over-Woke libs they so despise:

As Strauss & Howe put it in 13th Gen, “Solidarity with oppressed peoples they never ever have to meet in real life”.

Their concern/activism is for their Fantasy, NOT the real people. As long as the Kurds stay far far away, they never have to put their money where their mouth is.

Not familiar with the name.

But my writing partner (the burned-out country preacher, who went through a similar End Times mania experience) credits John Nelson Darby and Hal Lindsay with “destroying Protestant Christianity in America”.