Maybe He has another plan. He must have, because the current one couldn't possibly be to His liking. I am praying every day that something happens to convince everyone that His plan includes Trump, not Hillary. I keep going back to a Bible passage in II Chronicles 16:9, that says, "The eyes of the Lord move to & fro throughout the Earth so that He may search out and completely support those whose heart is completely His." I realize that Donald Trump's name doesn't come immediately to mind, but we don't really know what is in his heart, do we? Trumps, that is.

Yes, God couldn't possibly like a plan that involves healing the sick, feeding the hungry, taking in the stranger, or comforting the afflicted.

Oh, wait: "Then shall he say also unto them on the left hand, Depart from me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels: For I was an hungred, and ye gave me no meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me no drink: I was a stranger, and ye took me not in: naked, and ye clothed me not: sick, and in prison, and ye visited me not. Then shall they also answer him, saying, Lord, when saw we thee an hungred, or athirst, or a stranger, or naked, or sick, or in prison, and did not minister unto thee? Then shall he answer them, saying, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye did it not to one of the least of these, ye did it not to me.
And these shall go away into everlasting punishment: but the righteous into life eternal." (Matthew 25:41-46)

We have just witnessed the end of the European Union.

While Scotland and Northern Ireland voted to remain in the EU, England voted for Independence. The English decided to write their own laws and govern themselves.

At the same time as this vote, our media outlets reported that in May alone, the United States had run up a trade deficit in goods of $60 billion. This translates to an annual deficit of $720 billion in goods €” or nearly 4 percent of our GDP wiped out by purchases of foreign-made, rather than U.S.-made goods.

Donald Trump, commenting in western Pennsylvania, said: "€œWe got here because we switched from a policy of Americanism focusing on what's good for America"€™s middle class € to a policy of globalism, focusing on how to make money for large corporations who can move their wealth and workers to foreign countries, all to the detriment of the American worker and the American economy.€"

What might a Trump policy of Americanism over globalism look like? A 10 to 20 percent tariff on manufactured goods to wipe out trade deficits, with hundreds of billions in revenue that can be used to lessen or eliminate corporate taxes in America.

Trump also remarked that "€œthis wave of globalization has totally wiped out the middle class. It doesn"€™t have to be this way. We can turn it around and turn it around fast."

He has been painting Hillary Clinton as the champion of this kind of globalization which has pushed manufacturing jobs overseas. "€œWe have a leadership class that worships globalism over Americanism."

Trump promised to restore those millions of factory jobs by backing away from decades of U.S. trade policy.

Every American business would benefit, and every global company would have the incentive not only to move production to the U.S., but also have its headquarters here.

An "€œAmerica First"€ immigration policy would secure our border, cut legal immigrations to strengthen U.S. labor markets, strictly enforce our laws against those breaking into our country and get tough with businesses that make a practice of hiring people here illegally.

When looking at the Brexit vote in an American sense, Trump stated that, "they want to take their borders back. They want to take their monetary system back. They want to take a lot of things back. They want to be able to have a country again. So, I think you'€™re going to have this happen more and more. I really believe that, and I think that it's happening here in the United States."

Looking toward November, Trump sees this as his biggest weapon.

"€œCome November, the American people will have the chance to re-declare their independence. Americans will have a chance to vote for trade, immigration and foreign policies that put our citizens first. They will have the chance to reject today's rule by the global elite, and to embrace real change that delivers a government of, by, and for the people."

We are seeing an anti-establishment, nationalist, populist wave surging across Europe and the United States and Donald Trump could ride this wave to victory.

Trump didn't even know what Brexit was the first time a reporter asked him about it. He was in Scotland and congratulated the Scots on voting to leave the EU when they voted overwhelmingly to stay in (and they will probably have another referendum soon to leave the United Kingdom). Trump says the British wanted to "take their monetary system back" when they never adopted the euro. The European Union will survive, and I suspect that the U. K. (which will probably be smaller than it is now) will be trying hard to get back in before too many years go by.

By the way, most of the loss of manufacturing jobs in this country has come through improved productivity and automation, not through corporations leaving the U. S. I live in mining country, and even mining is now highly automated. Our big taconite plants (which "manufacture" iron ore) can produced as much iron with 25% of the workforce they required fifty years ago.