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With Trump, America Inaugurated a Return Not to Faith, But to Reason, by John Zmirak – Brown Pelican Society of Lousiana

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By John Zmirak, The Stream, January 21, 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.

The second inauguration of President Donald Trump, after he won a total of three U.S. elections, was not quite what I might dream of. But that’s because my dreams entail the coronation of a Habsburg to reign over a tolerant but decisively Christian empire.

Indeed, after the band finished playing “Hail to the Chief,” I switched from X’s coverage of the livestreamed swearing-in ceremony to a YouTube clip of “Zadok the Priest” played at Westminster Abbey:

God save the king!

Long live the king!

God save the king!

May the king live forever!

Amen, amen, amen, alleluia, amen.

But as the Stones say, you can’t always get what you want. We’re not in a land of Handel and Habsburgs, but of John Philip Sousa and Trumps. And while that may not be perfect, it’s still plenty good enough. ….

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