Days after the once and future President Donald Trump scored a decisive win at the polls, the political earthquake continues.

Trump’s supporters and detractors are still assessing the likely effects of the coming change in power. While the Trump camp savors its victory, his life remains in peril from enemies foreign and domestic. The memories of two attempts to murder Trump are still fresh, as his foes will stop at nothing to destroy him — literally.

Just after the election, I heard a Trump fan wonder aloud if he, Trump, will be killed before he can be inaugurated.

In his reflection on the incidents, Trump credited Almighty God with saving his life. His loyal supporters share his conviction.

I believe Trump made a wise decision in befriending Robert Kennedy Jr. I also believe that Kennedy is correct in believing that the Central Intelligence Agency was involved in the assassination of his uncle, President John F. Kennedy, 61 years ago this month.

If Trump is determined to eradicate the Deep State that is so firmly entrenched, he will encounter opposition and outright hostility that will rock the federal bureaucracy and nation to its foundations. Maybe that is what the country needs, a thorough housecleaning of powerful agencies headed by unelected careerists who care nothing about the principles of representative government or limits on power.

If one truly seeks to peel away the layers of chicanery, corruption and evil in the Deep State, he/she will incur the deadly wrath of those obsessed with wielding raw power.

Remember, it was the CIA that led in deepening U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War. The CIA, you may recall, had its own questionable enterprises in the war, notably Air America. I remember a radio interview with Lt. Col. James “Bo” Gritz several years ago, regarding his exploits in Southeast Asia, including attempted missions to find and recover American prisoners of war.

While the war was going on, Gritz told me, the GIs on the ground referred to Air America as “Air Opium,” as in dealing in narcotics and making profits.

Perhaps a new round of in-depth congressional hearings on the power on the part of the CIA and other agencies of the intelligence system is in order. And don’t forget the domestic spying on American citizens who may oppose the abuse of power as official policy.

From such an investigation, televised from coast to coast, we may discover that we are locked in mortal combat with not mere political forces, but with spiritual forces.

“For we wrestle not with flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places,” wrote Paul the Apostle. (Ephesians 6:12)

“Democracy dies in darkness,” is the slogan of The Washington Post.

The Deep State, by contrast, thrives in darkness. And wonder, for “men loved darkness, rather than light, because their deeds were evil.” (John 3:19)

Do we as Americans have the courage and the willingness to find and confront evil? Time will tell.