2021 is a markedly different year from 2016.
As has been announced throughout the year, with the advent of the Biden-Harris administration, a new pro-choice agenda will be unleashed upon the American population along with a revamped attack on traditional marriage.
The Church herself is wounded and scarred by corruption and confusion.
All of this pessimism is a pronounced contrast to the aftermath of the 2016 presidential election when Donald Trump seemed about to restore the life and health of not only the United States, but the entire Western world.
As has oft been remarked, Trump’s 2016 campaign was bigger than Trump; it was a “meta-political” campaign that opened the prospect for a radical shift in the Zeitgeist of the West as well as the wide world. A new, post-liberal way of being appeared on the horizon. The key question was: what sort of new Western subjectivity and Western politics?