Donald Trump has gotten the commentariat to speak Latin. It probably wasn’t on your predictions’ list for the second Trump administration. And, yet, comments Vice President JD Vance made on the order of love — ordo amoris — in an interview with Sean Hannity have given life to the “dead” language. But do we have a prayer for bona fide grace to come?
“You love your family, and then you love your neighbor, and then you love your community,” Vance said, “and then you love your fellow citizens in your own country, and then, after that, you can focus and prioritize the rest of the world.” Put your oxygen mask on before you help your neighbor’s with his. It’s practical and prudent. We’ve got a hot mess of an immigration situation, including missing children. That’s not loving anyone. Vance wasn’t saying anything we don’t already know — the floor has fallen in, we’ve got to buttress foundations.
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