And it works is the frustrating part. Our side just wants the rights guaranteed by God (life, liberty, etc.). Instead our side (elected officials and media personas) almost always cave in and fall for their narrative. Too reactionary. “We must prove we’re not racist by doing this or that.” We won’t vote for a 10% budget increase, but we’ll go along with 8%, blame it on Dems running Congress, and the Dems go around saying Republicans want to CUT your funding. The left sets the news these days, and media people on our side just bitch about it, they don’t set the narrative, we follow their narrative and try to prove we aren’t racist or we’ll wear a mask, but want businesses to be able to reopen. We always fucking compromise. Compromise just means giving it the John McCain/Graham treatment instead of them saying “Fuck You this is unconstitutional we’re not compromising on a single thing.” Been that way for as long as I’ve been following this and it needs to change. We need to find people and find a way to set the narrative, go on offense for a change. Trump did that, hence why they hated him and when it mattered most, barely any other elected official had his back.