President-Elect Trump is making great appointments at a breakneck pace. Meanwhile, the usual suspects are getting set up to oppose every breathe he takes. That’s politics. What’s not politics as usual is the people that are experiencing genuine deep emotional distress as a result of the election, and people who are supposed to help with our mental health, breaking up family support systems. Elections are elections, politics is politics, but there is something much deeper wrong here.

The signs of issues on a soul rending level are even deeper.

Yesterday we looked at the deep and inhumane corruptions inside FEMA. Something has to be very wrong in the soul of people who withhold assistance from those in deep need for the sake of political advantage.

Then there is what happened in Amsterdam last weekend. It is nothing less than the return of the greatest evil to visit the West in the last 150 years. Andrew C. McCarthy’s piece of this last Saturday is a must read on that on a political level – it is a result of the importation of jihad. Something went wrong in the governments of Europe to permit it, but then such has gone wrong there before. But it is coming here, as well. From the “pro-Palestinian” protests of recent times, protests that threatened Jewish students on campuses around the land, to the vandalism of Jewish institutions, we are seeing it.

This situation, wherein government is corrupt, and hatred goes public and gets organized, has developed amongst claims of “compassion” and “diversity.” Somehow good has become bad. Evil has wrapped itself in sanctimonious clothing and we have let it in. That’s not about politics. We are lost on levels that politics simply cannot address.

The election just past is not the answer to what ails us, rather it is the removal of obstacles to that answer asserting itself. I have no idea of Trump’s faith status. He has alluded to Norman Vincent Peale, but without deep commitment. His personal behavior is, at times, quite the opposite of traditional Christian practice. He does not speak “Christianese.” But he also understands the value of faith at work in the nation. Even if he does not hold it to his heart, he will not oppose it in action – which makes him radically different than the outgoing administration.

If we really want to fix what ails us, we cannot sit back and count on the government to fix it because the government cannot address the kind of sickness so deep in the culture. Nor are the “culture wars” of the last few decades the answer – if they were, we would not be here now. The church needs to become very active, but in a whole new way. We don’t need to engage in issues, we need to engage with people.

Which takes me back to what I wrote on Sunday. “I pray for the necessary compassion to bring healing where there is hurt.” Let’s start there.

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