Perhaps in these wild political and cultural times, we can spare a moment to “have some fun just for the fun of it.” Let’s take a rather offbeat look at the events surrounding the 2020 presidential election and those which spun their way through to the wee hours of November 6, 2024. The more we look, the more we see the spirit of Rube Goldberg and one of his crazy gizmos playing out.
For those not familiar with Goldberg’s nutty technique of solving problems, perhaps the simplest description might be that they are a convoluted chain reaction of elements, many unrelated to one another, activated to bring about a useful final result.
Erratic Events
From late 2020 through November 2024, the Democrats, along with their far-left operatives in the Deep State (i.e., the media and uniparty) engaged in a “game” with an eye on preventing Donald Trump from ever returning to the White House. Their method involved a simple domino effect: by taking Trump to court over one bogus legal charge after another, the dominoes would begin to fall. They figured those dominoes could tumble any of several ways, including Trump giving up, his supporters losing heart or interest, and one (if not several) of the legal cases ending in Trump’s incarceration and/or ineligibility to run for president.
The Democrats’ gambit, as we all know, did not pay off. They played the wrong game — and lost. Their wacky antics set in motion events which followed an erratic pattern.
Of course, one of these happened to be an assassination attempt against Trump in Butler, Pennsylvania, in the summer of 2024. Trump bounced back big-time when he darted up shouting, “Fight, fight, fight!” Add to that miraculous moment a wave from a McDonald’s drive-through window, a campaign-decorated dump truck — even people “eating cats and dogs” — and you arrive at a victory for the nation four years in the making.
God’s Will
There is another way of viewing the circuitous political and cultural events which transpired from 2020 through 2024, and that’s through a biblical lens:
“All things work together for good for those who love God and are called according to His purpose.” (Romans 8:28 NIV)
God is totally in charge of all events throughout human history. He puts the pieces in place and arranges them as He likes. We either “play along” by His rules or we devise our own strategy and take our chances.
The game is not over yet, of course, and there are still moves to be made.
Let’s be sure we end up on the winning side.
Sadar is author of Obvious: Seeing the Evil That’s in Plain Sight and Doing Something About It, as well as the children’s book collection, Hamster Holmes: Box of Mysteries.
