By John Zmirak, The Wanderer, May 5, 2023
John Zmirak is a senior editor at The Stream and author or co-author of ten books, including The Politically Incorrect Guide to Immigration and The Politically Incorrect Guide to Catholicism. He is co-author with Jason Jones of “God, Guns, & the Government.”
(Wanderer Editor’s Note: This article was originally published at The Stream [stream.org] and it is reprinted here with permission. It first appeared on April 25, 2023.)
I could be paranoid. I might be imagining things. It’s absolutely possible that I’m much too cynical, worldly, and steeped in the grim lessons of mankind’s fallen history. That history being full of free societies finally giving way to tyranny, of civilizations collapsing, and hordes of Assyrians pouring over the border to punish our faults. So I simply can’t see all the magical, hopeful possibilities for America that lie just round the corner. Sunshine and flowers and rainbows, which we could only spoil if we speak up and rock the boat.
And maybe it’s just a weird coincidence that every few days, as he promotes a powerful Christian film exposing Satan’s influence in the modern world, writer Steve Deace gets pummeled with another bizarre, inexplicable infection that puts him in the hospital. …