The Bible teaches, “Ye cannot drink the cup of the Lord and the cup of devils; ye cannot be partakers of the Lord’s table and of the table of devils” (KJV: 1 Corinthians 10:21).
Yet many people seem to want to have two ways of behaving when it comes to matters of the soul and morality. They want to mostly drink from the cup of righteousness, but are often lured away from goodness.
The verse highlights a parallel dysfunction going on politically across the nation. In 2024, enough Americans supported Donald Trump that he won a second term as president. Since then, the nation has endured economic, moral and authoritarian turmoil. A turning point may be at hand.
American voters know what good governance tastes like. They know about checks, balances, shared power and due process. Yet what they’ve seen in the months since Trump regained office is anything other than smooth sailing.
People were told grocery prices would go down and housing prices would become more affordable. They haven’t.
They were told the Trump term would be one of peace. Yet, he bombed eight countries in a year, caused a regime change in Venezuela and started a dangerous war with Iran last week that seems to have no end plan.
They were told government transparency would be a priority. But much in the Epstein files remains hidden, a patent effort to protect the felon Trump who is mentioned hundreds of times in the pages that have — and haven’t — been released.
They were told immigration issues would be taken care of. But they’ve seen unexpected violence in the streets, masked officers yanking people out of homes and cars and point-blank deaths of two Minnesotans that provoked international outrage.
There’s a cauldron of discomfort bubbling in America. There’s a palpable desire for change. In fact, voting patterns and polling around the county since January 2025 show the electorate is losing its taste for Trumpism, its lies, its heavy-handedness, its dysfunction.
Just this week in the purple state of North Carolina, the Democratic primary for U.S. Senate had 30% more voters than the GOP primary. It was a similar story in red Texas where 200,000 more Democratic voters outpolled Republicans in Senate primaries. In fact, a four-term incumbent of the Trump establishment, John Cornyn, got just 25,000 more votes than right-wing Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton in a three-way race that attracted 2.1 million voters.
And then turn to Virginia where gubernatorial races flip and flop between parties. In November 2025, however, U.S. Rep. Abigail Spanberger, the Democrat, waxed her Republican challenger by 14 points.
These are clear signs that the American electorate is bubbling with restrained fury. This November — unless there’s election fiddling by the Republicans or some stupid error by Democrats — look for a sea change in Washington.
Spanberger suggested last week in the Democratic response to Trump’s long State of the Union address that change is ahead.
“In the most innovative and exceptional nation in the history of the world, Americans deserve to know that their leaders are focused on addressing the problems that keep them up at night, problems that dictate where you live, whether you can afford to start a business or whether you have to skip a prescription in order to buy groceries. So I’ll ask again, is the president working to make life more affordable for you and your family? We all know the answer is no.”
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