....So, we end up again with the familiar question: When will the next “America First” populist candidate appear—12, 16, or 24 years?
Or is this idea of national salvation by a political candidate not possible in modern America? Instead, should our hope be directed in what gave America its great beginning, a Christian renewal with an accompanying cultural and institutional reform from the ground up?
The latter takes a long-term vision, dedication, and years. Voting for the next political savior is much easier.
Let me end with a positive note from the Englishman R. McNair Wilson in the preface of his 1961 book, God and the Goldsmiths. In one paragraph he gives an overview of Western civilization and a ray of hope:
International finance replaced the Medieval Church as a world order system, just as the Medieval Church had replaced Imperial Rome; if international finance falls there will be no new world order system unless men turn once more to the religion of Christ, that City of God without which man’s life has neither joy nor peace nor meaning.
