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Nice analysis. I didn't think there was going to be a 'red wave', for the reasons mentioned by the author, and also because I kept checking the 'Real Clear Politics' poll aggregator. Biden's approval was only 43% ... but Trump's was 41%.

And ... some otherwise-strong candidates (or one, anyway, that I know of) shot themselves in the foot by proclaiming that they were 'Christian Nationalists'. This helped us lose the Pennsylvania governorship. I know that people who endorse this stupidity say, "Oh, it just means we love our neighbors as ourselves, and acknowledges that the majority of the Founders were (notional) Christians." Uh huh.

And adherents of the Trump Cult are incapable of understanding how much people who are not hard-core progressives loathe the man, who so obviously cares about himself above everything (and is not very intelligent about the way he pursues his self-aggrandizement.)

But here is where I believe the author should think again: I agree that traditional America is not coming back. We can't "take back America". And we certainly should prepare for the Collapse, although I think we can do better than joining the Freemasons when it comes to creating local groups of likeminded people who can take advantage of having organized numbers, incorporating a range of skills, to deal with social disaster. The people at https://USCPT.org seem to be on the right track in this respect.

But there is still something serious we can do in the political arena, besides just conducting a fighting retreat.

We need to champion the idea of consistent Federalism: popularize the idea of returning as much power as possible to the states, and of allowing counties to transfer to bordering states: there are 'blue' counties in 'red' states that would be open to this idea, so we might be able to get serious support for this. Someone -- Twilight Patriot? -- needs to study and then summarize how the Austro-Hungarian Empire worked. I know this sounds crazy, but it could be a model for America. A common defense, national things like National Parks and the highway system done nationally, but 'way of life' decisions made by the people at the bottom.

I know I say this with every comment, but a counsel of passivity -- "Nothing we can do except stock up on canned beans and join the Freemasons" -- is wrong. We cannot, I believe, 'take back America'. But we can, via political action, build a strong defensive position within America from which we can, with some luck, re-arrange the top-down structure that has grown up since the Depression into a configuration more favorable to us.

Put it this way: whatever is coming, the more patriots we have holding government office -- from school boards up to the Senate -- the better.

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