I wrote this as a response to a comment about how we get our Republic back over on my Substack page - but it represents my perspective fairly well:

I think we are just getting into that fluid zone between keeping and losing.

In sports, there is always that zone of undecided outcomes when momentum is sliding back and forth before the clock runs out. We're there. The final buzzer hasn't sounded yet, but the clock IS ticking toward zero. I still believe we can turn it around. I do think if we elect feckless politicians who aren't willing to do the bare knuckle brawling it takes, we will lose it forever.

Tim adds:

I disagree. 2020 was the death of the American Republic. Most people don't realize it but we are in post-America now. What the new nation will look like is still up for debate, but it will never be the nation we once knew. We still have to fight, but to try to turn the direction of this new and rather alien entity, not to save the old Republic.

I agree. 2020 was the death of the American Republic. Most people don't realize it but we are in post-America now. What the new nation will look like is still up for debate, but it will never be the nation we once knew. We still have to fight, but to try to turn the direction of this new and rather alien entity, not to save the old Republic.