Might. . .and Right

 “We live in a world in which you can talk all you want about international niceties and everything else, but we live in a world, in the real world. . . that is governed by strength, that is governed by force, that is governed by power.”

It's an amazing thing, really, how quickly our culture has transformed into  what it is today, under Trump, a culture that has bought into "the politics of power." That quote up there is from Stephen Miller, who is perhaps the foremost Trump advisor, a man who told CNN in an interview this week that some of us, at least, read or heard with unending chills. 

“These are the iron laws of the world since the beginning of time,” he said, and he may be right about that. The truth is no one has said it openly for at least a century. Miller and Trump are bringing it back, in Venezuela most recently, Greenland next, then Cuba and Columbia and who knows how much more while we're at it, if their word is sound (that's questionable, of course). The entire population of Greenland, about 55,000 or so, aren't begging to come under the giant thumb of the King of the Big Macs, but that doesn't matter. Might makes right, and we've got the biggest and richest oligarchs in the world, and they'll sweep in and simply take over.

Manifest Destiny we once called an earlier version, when, post-Civil War, all that frontier land lay unoccupied from the Mississippi west. It was as if God almighty had determined it somehow impossible to imagine how the entire North American continent wasn't, well, ours because--do it yourself--just look at the continent--could it possibly not be that God intended it all to be ours?

And what could stop us from becoming what Stephen Miller would like us to be? Only an election defeat for the MAGA forces come November. And how will that change things? 

Try this: In a government in which Trump doesn't have ultimate might or weight or power, Congress will investigate whether Kristi Noem and the boss himself are right in their knee-jerk reaction to what happened yesterday in Minneapolis, that someone will bring them up for investigation for taking the life of this woman--

Renee Nicole Macklin Good, who was shot by an ICE agent as she drove her Honda Pilot down the street in front of her house. Noem--and Trump--called her "a domestic terrorist," an "agitator."

If MAGA goes down in November, someone or other will investigate the incident instead of making a snap judgment that appears to be contradicted by eye-witnesses as well as phone videos taken of the shooting, the murder. If MAGA goes down in November someone will determine what happened and whether all those little ships blasted out of the ocean were carrying fentanyl to our shores, or whether the entire Venezuelan enterprise wasn't really, from the get-go, about drugs, but oil.

Ours, Stephen Miller seems to say--our oil, and if you don't like it, I'll punch you in the face. Just remember--we got bigger guns. That's the rule of thumb now.

Nothing to do with Matthew 5. Nothing.