Recovering from defeat

The day Al Qaeda murdered American soldiers outside Kabul airport young Congressman Madison Cawthorn tweeted a video showing him waving a letter to Kamala Harris; square-jawed, square-shouldered, voice indignant, mimicking Trump, Cawthorn demanded Harris defrock Biden by using the 25th Amendment – to prove his point he intoned (what he called) “eternal, weighty, and wise” passages from Treasure Island in his letter…then slipped, misspelled Kamala Harris’ name.

The sun set, rose, standing erect on the manicured lawn in front of the White House Biden’s National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan stared into a TV camera; slender, narrow faced, humming voice mirroring Biden, Sullivan purred about the strength of Joe Biden’s ‘razor-sharp focus’ on Afghanistan.

Afghanistan ended in victory for terrorists. A defeat for us.

We’ve survived defeats before but there’s no escaping one lesson: Trump and Trump mimics, Biden and Biden mimics won’t purge the germs in our blood cells. To move beyond defeat – pray for new leaders.