Donald Trump won his second straight primary tonight and I am baffled but no longer surprised. I don’t normally go for apocalyptic thinking when it comes to politics, but I do believe that God will give you over to your desires and permit you to take the consequences, and as a country we’ve grown ever more voracious in our desire for ungodly things. So . . . maybe we’re being given over.

On the bright side, if Trump wins I will be, for the first time in my adult life, a man without a party. Well, good. I’ve always strongly identified with the conservative side of the house, but I started realizing over the past six years or so that there is no “fix” for what ails us in our political process. Good leaders can

, of course, make things somewhat better but I think our system becomes more unwieldy each cycle and I’m not sure that any of the required incentives for good government exist anymore. So this election cycle is just confirming what I’ve been slowly learning and hopefully will get me focused more on the One who really is going to fix everything.

Nominating a man like Donald Trump (if that happens) and electing him to the Presidency (an event I once would have thought completely impossible but now I think there’s an even shot) will be the dumbest thing we as a country have done for quite some time. We keep falling for the megalomaniacs and narcissists who tell us what they think we want to hear. Trump’s supporters are convinced that he is going to take care of our Biggest Problem™: illegal immigration.

Who says that’s our biggest problem? Here’s a list of what I believe are some of our biggest problems, just to name a few, each of which dwarfs the illegal immigration problem:

1. The absolute destruction of the African American family unit, largely due to idiotic government policies and perverse incentives. Seriously, the societal problems that spring from the dissolution of the family (regardless of your color, but the African American community has been the hardest hit) are akin to taking a bazooka round to the abdomen compared to the pinprick of illegal immigration. According to the CDC (referenced in this article among many others), the out-of-wedlock birthrate among African American women is 72%, with not as high but still very high rates among other groups.
    
2. The breakdown in our system of separation of powers. Seriously, the President these days can do almost anything he or she chooses, or at least can attempt to do anything he or she chooses and force the opposition to mount an expensive and time consuming legal challenge to stop it. Between executive orders, presidential memoranda, and the all but unstoppable and almost completely unaccountable regulatory regime of the executive branch, the President wields more power than ever. By the way, Trump supporters, your man doesn’t even act like he’s ever read the Constitution and I have zero confidence that he will roll back the current trends toward Executive hegemony. He’ll do the opposite, I believe. But, hey, you wanted a strong man who “gets things done” so enjoy the ride.
    
3. We don’t know how to reason or think anymore, or how to have a congenial and good-faith debate with those who differ from us. Tolerance, that vaunted character trait everyone has always at least pretended to value, is almost nowhere to be found in our public discourse. We’ve become one big, ongoing, never-ending food fight.
    
4. As a country we owe 19 trillion dollars to creditors.
    

None of these issues are going to be seriously addressed by the next President if current trends hold.

Sorry for the doom and gloom. Hopefully I’m wrong.