Why MAGA Is Getting Angry at Donald Trump and His Team, by John Zmirak

By John Zmirak, The Stream, July 14, 2025

John Zmirak is a senior editor at The Stream and author or coauthor of 14 books, including The Politically Incorrect Guide to Immigration and The Politically Incorrect Guide to Catholicism. His newest book is No Second Amendment, No First.

One of the deepest temptations we face recurs all through human history and is clearly inscribed in Scripture: getting angry with God. Cain resented Him for shrugging at his half-hearted sacrifice, then took out his rage on Abel. The Book of Job turns on Satan trying to goad that faithful believer to “curse God and die.” The Israelites grumbled in the desert at the God who’d set them free when they craved “the fleshpots of Egypt.”

And if I’m honest, I’ve struggled with this sin, too. Specifically, there’s part of me that’s angry I had to live through the past few years of our history, starting in 2020 with COVID, the George Floyd riots, the election fraud, the FBI’s crackdown on patriotic Americans, and the mass invasion of our country enabled by our own government….

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