The Leftist Exorcism Has Begun

And when He came to the other side into the country of the Gadarenes, two demon-possessed men confronted Him as they were coming out of the tombs. They were so extremely violent that no one could pass by that way. And they cried out, saying, “What business do You have with us, Son of God? Have You come here to torment us before the time?” Now there was a herd of many pigs feeding at a distance from them. And the demons begged Him, saying, “If You are going to cast us out, send us into the herd of pigs.” And He said to them, “Go!” And they came out and went into the pigs; and behold, the whole herd rushed down the steep bank into the sea and drowned in the waters.

Matthew 8:28-32

There have been many excellent apologetics on Kansas City Chiefs’ kicker Harrison Butker’s sublime commencement speech at Benedictine College a weekend ago. Three appeared in this very magazine, by S. A. McCarthy, Nate Hochman, and Paul Kengor. All the pieces righteously criticized the intense liberal backlash against the Church for encouraging a traditionalist view of women as wives and mothers. Butker, they assert, is a Catholic man addressing Catholic college students about Catholic custom. They correctly classified the hostility as attacks on Freedom of Religion and Speech, and as anti-Christian prejudice. Yet most of the defenders neglect a major point. That the insane leftist recoil to Butker’s speech is neither intellectual nor political but spiritual.

Leftists can sense something fine is coming to displace them, as surely as the demons possessing two men in Matthew’s Gospel recognized their Exorcist. The devils knew who Jesus was ahead of the unpossessed. And the power of Christ compelled them. “What business do You have with us, Son of God?” they cried. “Have You come here to torment us before the time?” The time is similarly running out for the secular Left. A hundred years of the feminist possession of women are no match for 2,000 years of Truth, or speakers of the Truth like Butker. (READ MORE from Lou Aguilar: Farewell to the Legend: Roger Corman)

The deceivers hear the ticking of the doomsday clock, and they scream above the sound. Witness Sara Haines’ ignorant screed on The View calling Traditional Latin Mass celebrants “cult-like and extremist.” Haines’ reaction to Butker was actually subtle compared to the female frenzy seen on social media. The Daily Wire’s Megan Basham exposed one particularly insane example on X, of a sunglasses-wearing blonde shrieking at a something-something rights rally:

There I was, sitting in Los Angeles in my beautiful office! Of my own late-night talk show! Soon, I would be driving my hybrid car to my beautiful f__ing home! And my husband, who had taken the year off to parent so I could focus on my career! And I have all of this! ALL OF IT! Because — because — because I was allowed bodily autonomy at fifteen! … I will never stop talking about my abortion! And all my periods! Or my experiences in childbirth! My episiotomies! My yeast infections! Or my ovulation that lines up with the moon!”

The word “lunatic” springs to mind, although Basham had a more appropriate one, “demons.”

It’s because feminists can see the tide has turned that Butker’s little talk triggered them more than decades of conservative opinionating. It represented everything they abandoned and condemned. A strong, attractive, successful yet humble man telling young women to fulfill and not forsake their primary purpose — wifehood and motherhood — and young men to appreciate them, thus reward themselves. He was cheered by both sexes in the audience representing — to leftist despair — the future.

The future is now. Contrary to liberal propaganda, the wedding rate in America is rising and divorce rates falling. There were more than two-million marriages in 2022, crossing the two million rate as it had in pre-COVID 2019. And married women are more likely to vote Republican, the manly party. Exit polls from the 2022 mid-term election showed married women preferred the GOP by 14 points, 56% to 42%. Unmarried women crushed them by backing Democrats 68 percent to 31 percent in an effort to make everyone as miserable as they are. The happiness gap between married and unmarried people is 61 percent to 45 percent.

The preponderance of depressed and depressing shrews is already making a difference this election year — against them. While black women still overwhelmingly support Biden, a new Wall Street Journal poll predicts 30 percent of black men in seven swing states will back Trump. That’s way up from the meager 12 percent Trump got in 2020, and a brutal blow to Biden. Which means that black men, like their white brothers, have had their fill of Democratic Party witch and trans-witch worship as well as racial victimizing.

Joe Biden hasn’t gotten the message. In a speech Sunday at predominantly black Morehouse College, Biden upped his normal race hustling to an embarrassing level. He lied about Georgia denying water to voters in line while shouting about white supremacy. Conversely, Donald Trump will hold a rally in the black-heavy Bronx this Thursday, and talk about opportunity, education, and employment. An X video promoting the event shows mostly black locals holding signs that say “The South Bronx for Donald Trump” and “Black Lives MAGA.” (READ MORE: Men Begin the Masculine Pushback)

The same people who tried to take out Donald Trump are failing again with Harrison Butker and the Catholic tradition. They can see their bad ending. But it’s too late to evade it. For the Leftist Exorcism had already begun.

The post The Leftist Exorcism Has Begun appeared first on The American Spectator | USA News and Politics.