Emerald Robinson, White House correspondent for Newsmax, recently wrote the following:

“In light of the Biden regime’s installation of pedophiles and Satanists and transgender deviants at the highest levels of government, it’s instructive to return to Archbishop Vigano’s first open letter to President Trump in June 2020. At the time, many accused Vigano of making “apocalyptic claims about a looming spiritual battle and a globalist conspiracy pursuing a one-world government.” He turned out to be right —of course. Vigano’s clear theological vision of the stakes of the 2020 election for our country (and the rest of the world) has never been more necessary. As Vigano says in this letter: “It is important that the good — who are the majority — wake up from their sluggishness and do not accept being deceived by a minority of dishonest people with unavowable purposes. It is necessary that the good, the children of light, come together and make their voices heard.“

Archbishop Vigano, former Apostolic Nuncio to the United States, wrote the following letter to President Trump some months prior to the 2020 election. I quote from it selectively.

“Mr. President:

“In recent months we have been witnessing the formation of two opposing sides that I would call Biblical: the children of light and the children of darkness. The children of light constitute the most conspicuous part of humanity, while the children of darkness represent an absolute minority. And yet the former are the object of a sort of discrimination which places them in a situation of moral inferiority with respect to their adversaries, who often hold strategic positions in government, in politics, in the economy and in the media. In an apparently inexplicable way, the good are held hostage by the wicked and by those who help them either out of self-interest or fearfulness.These two sides, which have a Biblical nature, follow the clear separation between the offspring of the Woman and the offspring of the Serpent. On the one hand there are those who, although they have a thousand defects and weaknesses, are motivated by the desire to do good, to be honest, to raise a family, to engage in work, to give prosperity to their homeland, to help the needy, and, in obedience to the Law of God, to merit the Kingdom of Heaven. On the other hand, there are those who serve themselves, who do not hold any moral principles, who want to demolish the family and the nation, exploit workers to make themselves unduly wealthy, foment internal divisions and wars, and accumulate power and money: for them the fallacious illusion of temporal well-being will one day — if they do not repent — yield to the terrible fate that awaits them, far from God, in eternal damnation.” . . .

“For the first time, the United States has in you a President who courageously defends the right to life, who is not ashamed to denounce the persecution of Christians throughout the world, who speaks of Jesus Christ and the right of citizens to freedom of worship. Your participation in the March for Life, and more recently your proclamation of the month of April as National Child Abuse Prevention Month, are actions that confirm which side you wish to fight on. And I dare to believe that both of us are on the same side in this battle, albeit with different weapons.

“For this reason, I believe that the attack to which you were subjected after your visit to the National Shrine of Saint John Paul II is part of the orchestrated media narrative which seeks not to fight racism and bring social order, but to aggravate dispositions; not to bring justice, but to legitimize violence and crime; not to serve the truth, but to favor one political faction. And it is disconcerting that there are Bishops — such as those whom I recently denounced — who, by their words, prove that they are aligned on the opposing side. They are subservient to the deep state, to globalism, to aligned thought, to the New World Order which they invoke ever more frequently in the name of a universal brotherhood which has nothing Christian about it, but which evokes the . . . ideals of those who want to dominate the world by driving God out of the courts, out of schools, out of families, and perhaps even out of churches.” . . .

“Mr. President, my prayer is constantly turned to the beloved American nation, where I had the privilege and honor of being sent by Pope Benedict XVI as Apostolic Nuncio. In this dramatic and decisive hour for all of humanity, I am praying for you and also for all those who are at your side in the government of the United States. I trust that the American people are united with me and you in prayer to Almighty God.”

Obviously, the 2020 election did not go as Archbishop Vigano wished.

It is interesting to note the archbishop’s fulsome praise of Donald Trump, a non-Catholic with a serious deficit in magnanimity Despite Trump’s faults, Vigano was convinced that President Trump was on the right side in the raging spiritual battle between the forces of good and evil. That fact overrode all other considerations.

I believe Archbishop Vigano was absolutely correct.

We have another opportunity in 2024. I pray that the American people will rise up and vote the children of darkness out. I would be happy to see someone other than Trump lead the charge, but I doubt that anyone else has the strength surplant him; and, despite his defects, he certainly demonstrates the qualities of fortitude and resolve that we so desperately need in a President.