Today, the lot of us did something we haven’t done in a very long while.

We went into a little Catholic church here in Boystown, and we lit every candle in the place, dropping a good $50 in the donation tin for all that fire and wax.

For us, who grew up Catholic but don’t consider ourselves religious at all anymore, it was kind of like visiting the Bulgarian or Icelandic embassies — we felt like strangers on foreign soil in many ways, but were welcomed all the same.

It was Panda’s idea to do this, because he said, “Well, it’s not going to hurt, is it?  The worst that could happen would be we’d set something on fire accidentally, which would be bad, but they have all that holy water around, so it would work itself out.”

We lit the candles to pray for America.

Democrats, wholly controlled by the Left, are committed to destroying this country.  They want to tank the economy so the current president can declare himself God-Emperor and remake the nation in the mold of the failed socialist states of Europe or the dictatorial banana republics of the third world.

In school, we were taught our Founders considered America a great shining city on a hill, favored and blessed by God high up above, to lead the world in prosperity and democracy.

As kids, our grandparents told us how hard they all fought when the Emperor of Japan and the most evil man who’d ever lived, the Reich’s Fuhrer, waged war to destroy that city on a hill.  And every last one of them fought back, in their own way.  In the army.  In factories.  With the USO.  In the OSS.  They did their parts, and they saved the world.

Well, all of those grandparents have passed on.  Several good friends have also headed Home.  Panda’s mom and dad, in fact, are up there too.

We lit all those candles tonight to get all of their attention, along with all the saints who will listen, and the spirits of our great and wise Founders.  We sent our prayers out there to every hero of the Republic…to every man and woman who fell on a battlefield defending Old Glory…to every soul lost here on the homefront doing his or her part to protect and defend Lady Liberty…to every American of the past who loved this country more than anything.

We asked every last one of them to hear us tonight, and to mobilize in the world unseen to do whatever they could to stop Democrats from destroying this country.

We’re usually resolutely cheerful and as unemotional as possible around here.  We’re not guys who cry often, no matter how bad things get, but we’ve never known of a time in history when America itself was in so much peril.

The Left is closer to its goals of destroying this country and rendering it “just another nation amongst 190 out there”.  Perhaps the Devil itself, should it exist, is close to its own goal of smashing that city on a hill that’s endured for 233 years to lead the world to freedom and prosperity unparalleled in all history.

If the forces of darkness, socialism, and downright evil are so thoroughly mobilized, we hope the powers of good are aware of what’s going on.  We  hope armies of angels are in flight inspiring as many people as possible to resist the Democrats, to fight back, and to save this nation.

We needed to embrace emotion tonight.

Later this evening, we’ll get back to the bare-bones, by the books, strategy of organizing our idea to put enormous pressure on the wealthy donors who fund the DNC…to stop this madness immediately and rein Congress in. Because, that’s who we are.  That’s how we can help.

But, we just love this country so much.  We don’t want it to slide backwards.  We don’t want the Left to gleefully destroy what generations before us fought so hard for.

We think of our grandparents staring down Hitler and Hirohito, and countless other villains, and socking them right in the face.

That’s what America should do to the despicable narcissist in the White House and the two reckless, ignorant, socialists in charge of the House and Senate currently.

If it doesn’t offend you to ask this, please pray for America tonight.  Ask your friends to pray, too.  Tomorrow, light some candles in your churches and ask the little old ladies in there to pray for our nation too.

We’re in trouble, people.

Deep trouble.

Worse than this nation has ever faced, because those who want to do America harm are not in Berlin and Tokyo, but in Washington itself.

They must be stopped.

We must pray that everyone has the strength collectively to form the Resistance needed to do that.

Please pray for our nation.

We truly beg of you.

Please pray we all have the strength to do our part to stop this madness.