Gary Varvel: Democrats' greatest fear

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After President Trump’s first 100 days and Sen. Chuck Schumer gave him an “F” for “failure.” In reality, Schumer and the democrats are the ones getting an “F” for “fear.” What are they are afraid of? Trump’s success.

Victor Davis Hanson said the democrats have “no alternative to addressing the debt, (or) the trade deficit.” “And whether you like Donald Trump or not, or whether you think he’s crude, he is embracing policies that in bygone days, both the democrats and the republicans saw was the solution. And the democrats are terrified that it’s not only the viable solution but that it’s gonna work.”

Trump closed the border, is deporting criminals, his DOGE team is rooting out waste, fraud and abuse, his tariff threats are bringing nations to the bargaining table and bringing manufacturing back to America. He’s like the Anti-Biden. And that is what’s really freaking out the Dems.

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DEVOTIONAL

What defines your life?

The verse for today: “Yet indeed I also count all things loss for the excellence of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord, for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and count them as rubbish, that I may gain Christ.” Philippians 3:8.

Major League Baseball Hall of Famer Mickey Mantle was one of the greatest players of all time. His career was cut short because of injuries and he retired at 37. Near the end of his life, Mantle was asked, by the Dallas Observer, what he felt when he saw pictures and film footage of himself as a young player. He answered:

"I can be watching these things and I keep thinking, you know, that I can't really hardly remember playing. It's like it's somebody else.”

Memories fade. We can’t live in the past. Whatever pleasure or success or failure we experienced in the past is gone.

Before he died in 1995 at 63, Mantle told his former New York Yankees teammate Bobby Richardson that he accepted Jesus Christ as his Savior. Nothing else mattered.

When we face our own death, the trophies, the records, the memories will all be worthless trash. The Apostle Paul counted all things as rubbish compared to knowing and becoming like Jesus Christ. What defines your life?

(first published in 2020)

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American Greatness - Victor Davis Hanson: From Russiagate to Harvard scandals, the left’s decade-long hysteria machine spins on—loud, fact-light, and void of any serious plan for America’s future.

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