As America appears to be copying the worst aspects of China’s recent history, China is copying the best aspects of America’s, striving to take the edge as the United States goes through its own cultural revolution.  — Fareed Zakaria, 2025

While Disney’s Snow White remake is bombing at the box office China’s most recent animated feature film is soaring to global success.  Nobody questions the obvious collapse of American cultural influence.  That understanding does more to explain Trump’s rise to power than anything else.  He’s attempting to ride the Lone Ranger’s white horse, Silver, to a global legacy of peace.  Like John Reid he will force peace on the world with a six shooter.  Only Trump’s six shooter is loaded with nuclear bullets.

His strategy is failing miserably.  The political grifters, Donald and Melania Trump, have run up against something they have no power to overcome — the Moral Law. 

I don’t regret my vote for Trump.  His campaign promises, however, bear little resemblance to how he is choosing to govern.  He could easily deliver on many of those promises.  The American people are sick to death of war.  They are not as loyal to Israel as he imagines.  They don’t care as much about Ukraine as his advisors want him to believe.  We aren’t as dedicated to dominating the world as his post World War II boomer business buddies.  No real American believes that jewish identity justifies genocide.

We want the innocence and beauty of the 1938 animated Snow White without the violent passion for global domination by white folk. 

I want the rest of the world to push past Globish and celebrate their God-given languages, cultures, foods and identities.  The English system and language has delivered a unique sort of global trade.  How about we proceed celebrating the opportunity to trade with people who don’t speak our language.   We don’t need to drop bombs on their families if they don’t do what we demand.  They aren’t automatically wrong if they don’t look, sound and think like us.

Amen.