Carlyle Fielding Stewart III

Writings on Democracy, Social Justice, and Religion

Category: Donald Trump

  • On Not Helping Political Enemies Dupe Us into Whipping Our Own Asses Politically.”

    Sometimes in the battles of life, we can give enemies the victory when we fall for their tricks, traps, and various forms of seduction. Instead of developing a game plan to soundly defeat them tactically, strategically, and operationally, we end up whipping our own behinds in defeat because we fail to understand how we have…

  • Donald J Trump and the Procrustes Political Playbook

    The comparison between Donald J. Trump’s politics and the myth of Procrustes acts as a metaphorical critique, which can be understood as follows: Procrustes and the Bed: In Greek mythology, Procrustes was a bandit who forced travelers to fit his iron bed. If they were too tall, he would cut off their legs; if too short, he…

  • Yes! Christians Can Be Angry Especially When Politicians Are Destroying Our Country.

    Yes! Christians Can Be Angry Especially When Politicians Are Destroying Our Country.

    The issue is not that Christians are allowed to be angry or even outraged at what Trump and his quislings are doing to America but how Christians choose to interpret and respond to such bold-faced bullying in the belligerent theft of our country. There are two basic things that we can control in the transactions…

  • We Hold These Truths To Be Self-Evident. What Truths? II

      The emphasis here is “Truths,” a word now promulgated in a culture of Orwellian Doublespeak characterized by linguistic acrobatics with reverse meanings, misinformation, and disinformation in American Public discourse since the rise of Donald Trump.” Doublespeak is the language that deliberately distorts, disguises, obscures, hides, or reverses the meaning of words.” Statements like “War…

  • A Second Term of Donald Trump? What it Could Mean for America and the World.

    A Second Term of Donald Trump? What it Could Mean for America and the World.

    After years of writing articles on religion, democracy, and politics warning of the coming radical right-wing tsunami now shaking the foundations and threatening to destroy our Democratic Constitutional Republic, there is little doubt that America will face greater hardships if Donald J. Trump is re-elected. Since his foray into American power politics, the former president…