You speak the truth. Isn't this the week we make clear the distinction between the kingdoms of this world and the kingdom of our Lord? One kingdom rules by force and another compels through love. The rulers of this world secure power through violence and shedding the blood of others; the ruler of God's kingdom sheds his own blood and through love overcomes the powers of destruction and death.
We aren't waving palm leaves for the Maccabean kingdom that once was but for a kingdom where suffering, sorrow, and death cease. Palm leaves now represent a state of affairs where justice, beauty, and goodness are at home. American politics can know nothing about that kingdom. The GOP is even more blind. It is impossible for those of the flesh to know the ways of the Spirit.