What we experienced yesterday was a defeat. Let's not sugar coat this or pretend it was anything else just to assuage our cognitive dissonance or our egos.

And for all the "trust the plan" fellow brothers and sisters, of which I am one, remember this: that was not the plan.

That was the hijacking of our movement right into the very trap the deep state wanted us to saunter into; it was out of the blue, it was a last-minute diversion of our energy, and it was the result of agent provocateurs infiltrating "our" side and secretly-placed orders on "their" side to assist. It was a setup, and we fell for it hook line and sinker.

Do you want to know why? It's because THEY had a plan, THEY had the comms, THEY had opsec, THEY had a strategy, and THEY executed THEIR tactics flawlessly. They drew us in at just the moment of our imminent victory to turn it into an excuse to deny us. They managed to take our greatest victory, our show of massive unity and demographic strength, and turn it into our most ignominious defeat.

The moment we descend into lawlessness and violence, we have abdicated our legitimacy as a political movement and made ourselves into lawful targets instead. The deep state is the expert in the science of psychological operations and false flag operations and hijacking passionate movements into serving their own ends. Once a revolution is started, the side with the best comms and the best strategy and the best infrastructure wins. That is not our side. Use this as a teachable moment. It is a learning experience.

Don't fall into the trap of pointing out the double standards. Yes, the left has used political violence. That violence was controlled and sanctioned by them. That violence was and will always be despicable. But when we descend into that moral abyss, we cannot claim the high ground just because "they did it too." No; we lose if we do that. We know it's wrong, and everybody else knows it's wrong. That the deep state does things that are wrong "too" still does not excuse it; and don't forget who we're fighting. We're fighting an amoral enemy. We're fighting for morality. Their tactics are a trap, and we cannot fight evil with evil.

Our only chance at victory over the deep state is through a legitimate top-down legal approach. Like many on the left have said, our AR-15's are no match to the government's F-15's. The only way to defeat the enemy that has captured our government is to decapitate that enemy by recapturing command and control over the government. If we are fighting outside of that legal mandate, the enemy has the full force and legitimacy of the government to fight us on the ground and to defeat us at every turn.

This war cannot be won through impatience; we have a patient enemy. This war cannot be won through violence; we have a superior enemy.

This was can only be won through public education, through patience, through calm strategy, and through sheer determination. We've seen that it will take longer than four years. We've seen that it will take more than just a big crowd of supporters. We need to continue to organize and to continue to bring our fight to the deep state, and we need to direct that energy of our movement into the very heart of the beast itself. We need to flood all local and state offices, run for office, support patriots, and turn our defeat into knowledge and better planning for the future.