Tuck Everlasting

In 2018, Pastor Dave Barnhart of the Saint Junia United Methodist Church in Birmingham, Alabama posted this message to Facebook:

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“We can dismiss notions of the 25th Amendment: Again, Trump has surrounded himself only with soulless seditionists willing to be the gears in conservatism’s ambitions to unwind democracy in favor of fascist rule. Impeachment, though, is a requirement. Put it to Republicans to block; that will separate the advocates of war crimes from those who oppose them, signature by signature, which will prove invaluable if the United States is ever to return to non-authoritarian rule again. Make the list of names; etch it into the walls of the Capitol, if necessary. Cutting the congressional vacation short, getting asses in the seats to defund Trump’s military “excursion” immediately: Again, a requirement. Anything less is an enabling act, an endorsement of Trump’s threatened war crimes. Return to Washington. Make a list of everyone who did not. And, above all, emphasize that there will be consequences for these acts. To the military pilots called on to destroy civilian structures for the sole sake of breaking civilians’ will. You will be held accountable. To the generals who drew up the plans: You will be held accountable.”

“But the world will not put up with a United States acting out on an imagined role as the world’s saboteur, and no matter how the Trump era ends we will be called on to either mete out justice on these criminals or be pinned as criminals ourselves. Those who carried out the crimes will be indicted by foreign courts, and the United States will either become a pariah nation or it will find a way to ship the indicted into their custody. Enough. There is no moral argument for inaction. There’s no plausible case for keeping the deranged idiot madman in power. Fly your sorry besuited asses back to the Capitol and this time, strip this self-proclaimed destroyer of civilizations of his powers. Anything less is an act of complicity.”

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“Tonight’s speech wasn’t a victory address. It was a desperate attempt to change a narrative that has already escaped him, and you cannot change a narrative without a strategy, and you cannot sell a strategy you don’t have, and you cannot build public support one month after the shooting starts. Iran still controls the Strait of Hormuz. Over twenty percent of the world’s petroleum passes through that waterway. Trump threatened to bomb Iran into submission if they didn’t open it. They didn’t open it. He didn’t follow through. TACO II. And now he’s telling European allies it’s their problem. Trump, a fool and a loser, is a man who embarrassingly picked a fight, lost the fight, and is loudly declaring victory.”

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“Retired Gen. Mark Hertling, who once commanded the U.S. Army’s European forces, said he’s “haunted” by allies who ask him “whether American institutions ever can be trusted again.” “Our nation’s institutions have been shaken. Our alliances have been strained. Our credibility has been damaged. And our nation’s values have been cast aside,” Hertling said. He suggested the U.S. should look to the reconstruction of Germany after the defeat of Nazism if it hoped to to restore the damage caused by Trump and his allies. The nation’s recovery, he said as his voiced cracked, would be something people have to earn over many years.”