Donald Trump wins US presidency: Viewing this moment through the lenses of history, culture, and Scripture
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🗓️ 6 November 2024
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Summary
Donald Trump has been elected the forty-seventh president of the United States. As more is known, we will have ample opportunity to analyze this historic outcome. For today, let’s step back for some larger perspective, seeking to view our nation and this moment through the lenses of history, culture, and Scripture.
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| 0:00.0 | Good day. It's Wednesday, November the 6th, 2024. Welcome to the Daily Article podcast. I'm Chris Elkins, |
| 0:09.2 | narrating today's daily article written by Denison Forum co-founder and CEO, Dr. Jim Denison. |
| 0:16.2 | Donald Trump has been elected the 47th President of the United States. The New York Times estimates he will |
| 0:23.2 | win the Electoral College, 312 votes to 226. At this writing, he is leading the popular vote, |
| 0:31.6 | 51% to 47%. Republicans are projected to take back the U.S. Senate and posted early gains as they seek to retain control of the House of Representatives. |
| 0:42.3 | Of the U.S. counties with nearly complete results, more than 90% shifted in favor of Mr. Trump. |
| 0:50.3 | As more is known, we will have ample opportunity to analyze this historic outcome. |
| 0:55.0 | For today, let's step back for some larger perspective, seeking to view our nation and this moment through the lenses of history, culture, and scripture. |
| 1:05.0 | In 1903, President Theodore Roosevelt issued a Thanksgiving Day proclamation in which he stated, |
| 1:12.3 | in no other place and at no other time, has the experiment of government of the people, |
| 1:17.6 | by the people, for the people, been tried on so vast a scale as here in our own country. |
| 1:24.1 | His words are still true, 121 years later. America has now conducted its 60th presidential |
| 1:31.3 | election, beginning with George Washington's unanimous victory in 1789. However, our system of |
| 1:38.5 | governance goes back much further. In 1619, the colony of Jamestown elected Burgesses, citizens who represented a borough |
| 1:48.0 | or neighborhood. |
| 1:49.0 | The group then convened in the church choir loft. |
| 1:52.0 | Elective democracy both expresses and forges our national character. |
| 1:57.0 | It is the natural outgrowth of our founding creed that all men are created equal, offering us a way to |
| 2:02.8 | govern ourselves through a system that constrains autonomous authority while rewarding consensual |
| 2:08.9 | leadership and morality. However, it seems that the bonds of trust essential to our democratic |
| 2:14.6 | experiment are weaker than at any time in my lifetime. Before yesterday's |
| 2:19.5 | election, security fencing was erected around the White House, the U.S. Capitol, and Vice President |
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