Permit me hazard a few preliminary studies about the Republican National Convention on Thursday night’s speech because it’s difficult to describe historic events as they are unfolding.
The most enthralling, most inspiring thing that has ever happened at a political agreement in this state is watching a political candidate ( and former president ) describe his near-assassination less than a week after a shot came within centimeters of ending his life.
” I will tell you exactly what happened, and you’ll never learn it from me a next day because it’s really very painful to tell”, Trump said.
In a quiet, almost solemn tone, Trump recounted in details his near-death encounter to a frantic watching world. ” I’m not supposed to be here”, he said, attributing his life to” the kindness of Almighty God”. Some in attendance, and hardly a dozen watching at home, were in grief as Trump told his story. He described being shielded by Secret Service agents, receiving a shot in the neck, and having heart run down his face. Suddenly he invoked heavenly providence:” There was heart pouring, and but, in a particular way, I felt quite secure because I had God on my side”.
Then he described the crowd’s reaction: They did n’t run, they did n’t stampede. They were worried about him, Trump said, scared he may be seriously wounded — or worse. Trump said he wanted to show them he was all right, that he was n’t going anywhere. So he stood up, raised his fist, and shouted,” Battle! Battle! Struggle”! The agreement audience resounded in chorus when he said this.
The closest thing to the end of the conversation was when Trump eulogized Corey Comperatore, a neighborhood man from Pennsylvania who had been killed at the march in front of his wife and two daughters, in a moving moment. Trump remarked,” He lost his life by giving up his life to defend them from flying guns.” He was struck and went straight over top of them. What a great guy he was”.
Before Trump took the stage, two people pulled out Comperatore’s fireman hat and jacket, and at one stage, Trump crossed over and kissed the hat, and therefore demanded a moment of silence in his honor.
Then he said:” There is no greater love than to lay down one’s life for others. This is the soul that led to the formation of America in her most troubled times, and this is the passion that will bring it back to the height of human achievement and glory. This is what we need. Despite such a terrible assault, we unite this night, more determined than ever. I am more defined than always, and so are you. But is everybody”.
At a social agreement in America, this has never occurred. It was a remarkable, almost incredible time in American elections.  ,
In truth, the entire convention, coming less than a week after the assassination attempt, had an air of story, of the nature of divine providence — a evident feeling that, as , one pundit on X put it, we are” caught in the flood of larger coasts”. The agreement started with a prayer to Saint Michael the Archangel, a customary Catholic prayer for safety against” the wickedness and snares of the devil.” Eventually, the Rev. Franklin Graham prayed for both Trump and the country.
That does not imply that the agreement as a whole was a complete a distinct Christian. In some ways, it was even less Christian than previous GOP standards. The Republican Party platform’s decision to remove the phrase “end pregnancy” has received a lot of positive reviews. Additionally, the Hindu meditation and the decision to platform Amber Rose were both criticized by more than a few observers on the right.
However, the agreement had a larger-than-life vibe, as it has been recently in America. At one point in the evening, Tucker Carlson gave a dozen unscripted remarks about what’s happened in the last fortnight, how in his view “everything was unique” after the assassination attempt. He suggested that there is currently a sort of thing that transcends politicians. ” I think even people that , do n’t  , believe in God are beginning to think, well, maybe there’s something to this actually”, he said, and closed by saying,” God is among us right now, and I think that’s enough”.
Tucker is correct, activities are unfolding that seem to go beyond simple politics. Everything is happening in America and among its citizens, and we have no control over it.
Trump closed his speech with an appeal to put our bitterness and divisions apart and” come up” to move forwards as “one persons” — eschewing the reproaches and outrage that his supporters might have expected of him after surviving an assassination attempt.
” Tonight I ask for your partnership, for your support, and I am humbly asking for your vote”, he said. ” To all of the forgotten men and women who have been neglected, abandoned, and left behind, you will be forgotten no longer. We will press forward, and together we will win, win, win”.
But Trump also said something else, circling back to his opening theme: divine providence. He said,” Just a few short days ago, my journey with you nearly ended. And yet here we are tonight, all gathered together, talking about the future, promise, and renewal of America. We live in a world of miracles. None of us are aware of God’s plan or of where the adventures of life will lead. However, if the events of last Saturday make any sense, it is that God gave us a gift every single moment here on Earth. We must make the most of each day for the people and nations we care about.
We live in a world of miracles. None of us knows God’s plans. Every moment we have is a gift from God. All of this is true. They are the things almost all Americans have publicly stated just a few generations ago, but they are not what you would ordinarily expect to hear at an American political party convention.
These, however, are not ordinary times. They are filled with history, wonder, and providence. And where they go, only God is aware.
