text: (Part one of two)  Trump stands for an America of the past—Mario T. Garcia  As an historian, I say be serious.  Trump does not stand of an America of the past.  Alternative facts.
  
  We have to remain optimistic that this can be done and that it will be done.—Mario T. Garcia.  That is the Christian shtick, hope during disaster.
  
  I'm not sure how progressives challenge such a (Trump) world-view—Elagabalus.  I am sure the Christian philosophy here is to let truth determine politics, wherever truth may lead.