Proudly.
I did my best to support and defend Trump in the years that followed, but my conservatism was increasingly at odds with how Jesus treated marginalized communities...and it was increasingly at odds with Trump's bombastic behavior.
Compassionate Conservatism was out, having been replaced by a more caustic brand of conservatism within the Republican Party.
As COVID took hold in 2020, I didn't recognize my Christian and Conservative brother and sisters. Their callous response to the health of others shocked me. All told, I lost 19 people to COVID. All of them would be alive had Conservatives and Christians practiced "Love Thy Neighbor."
Though I could not see it at the time, the wall that had taken a lifetime to erect was dangerously close to collapse.
The Brick That Toppled The Wall
It took 8 minutes and 46 seconds for my wall to be reduced to rubble.
The exact length of time that a white police officer's knee was on George Floyd's neck.
08:46
One man, Officer Derek Chauvin, pulled a brick and the wall came down.
Even now, that moment reduces me to tears.
"I can't breathe."
The wall that had taken 43 years to build took 8 minutes and 46 seconds to come crashing down.
The life that I once knew was gone in a moment.
It was as if everything that I had believed, known, and professed clicked like a gear into a different setting and then fell back into place.
Everything shifted.
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