January 6: The Trap Springs Shut
2020: The Perfect Storm
Then came 2020.
A novel virus. Global panic. Locked-down populations. Police forces vilified and defunded. Cities burning night after night while cable news called it “mostly peaceful.”
It wasn’t spontaneous. You don’t get synchronized arson and identical slogans in fifty cities by accident. Someone had prepared the ground perfectly.
The goal wasn’t to win policy debates. The goal was exhaustion. To make normal life feel impossible. To make people desperate for order – any order.
January 6: The Trap Springs Shut
Here’s where the color revolution playbook becomes crystal clear.
After a year of watching downtowns burn with official blessing, one afternoon of chaos at the Capitol became “an insurrection” – the worst attack since the Civil War, we were told.
The riots stopped the next day. The narrative flipped overnight. Suddenly only one kind of political violence was unacceptable.
That wasn’t coincidence. That was the spark they needed – the justification to unleash the full apparatus of state against half the population.
Thousands of people who walked between velvet ropes and took selfies are still in prison years later. Grandmothers. Veterans. People who never touched a door.
Meanwhile the people who actually burned police stations in 2020? Most never even charged.
The message was crystal clear: there are two sets of rules, and which one applies to you depends entirely on your politics.
The Quiet Purge Inside Government
But the real horror was happening out of sight.
Conservative and religious federal employees – thousands of them – were apparently flagged, tracked, and referred to agencies under pretexts ranging from social media posts to vaccine refusal. Some ended up on lists that look disturbingly like enemies lists.
This wasn’t incompetence. This was deliberate ideological cleansing of the permanent bureaucracy.
And it almost worked.
Where We Stand Today
The 2024 election didn’t end the color revolution – it interrupted it.
The people who built this machine over decades aren’t going to dismantle it because of one vote. They’re going to double down. The NGOs are still funded. The lawfare networks are still active. The media alignment is still total in many sectors.
But something has changed: millions of Americans finally see it.
The spell is broken. The loneliness is gone. People know they’re not crazy anymore.
That’s the first real victory. And it might be enough.
But only if we don’t let our guard down now.
The revolution was never about one election, one president, or one party. It was about transforming the country permanently. And the people behind it still hold most of the cultural high ground.
The fight isn’t over. It’s just entering a new phase.
And this time, we see them coming.
The Great Red-Washing of History
At the same time all this was happening in workplaces and schools, something else was occurring in the background: the systematic erasure of any memory that could warn us.
Try finding a mainstream high school textbook that still teaches the hundred million deaths under communism. Try finding a university class that treats the Gulag or the Cultural Revolution as anything more than footnotes. The past was being red-washed – scrubbed clean of the evidence that could have helped an entire generation recognize the pattern.
My grandfather would have spotted this in a heartbeat. My kids’ teachers call it “progress.”
2020: The Perfect Storm
Then came 2020.
A novel virus. Global panic. Locked-down populations. Police forces vilified and defunded. Cities burning night after night while cable news called it “mostly peaceful.”
It wasn’t spontaneous. You don’t get synchronized arson and identical slogans in fifty cities by accident. Someone had prepared the ground perfectly.
The goal wasn’t to win policy debates. The goal was exhaustion. To make normal life feel impossible. To make people desperate for order – any order.
January 6: The Trap Springs Shut
Here’s where the color revolution playbook becomes crystal clear.
After a year of watching downtowns burn with official blessing, one afternoon of chaos at the Capitol became “an insurrection” – the worst attack since the Civil War, we were told.
The riots stopped the next day. The narrative flipped overnight. Suddenly only one kind of political violence was unacceptable.
That wasn’t coincidence. That was the spark they needed – the justification to unleash the full apparatus of state against half the population.
Thousands of people who walked between velvet ropes and took selfies are still in prison years later. Grandmothers. Veterans. People who never touched a door.
Meanwhile the people who actually burned police stations in 2020? Most never even charged.
The message was crystal clear: there are two sets of rules, and which one applies to you depends entirely on your politics.
The Quiet Purge Inside Government
But the real horror was happening out of sight.
Conservative and religious federal employees – thousands of them – were apparently flagged, tracked, and referred to agencies under pretexts ranging from social media posts to vaccine refusal. Some ended up on lists that look disturbingly like enemies lists.
This wasn’t incompetence. This was deliberate ideological cleansing of the permanent bureaucracy.
And it almost worked.
Where We Stand Today
The 2024 election didn’t end the color revolution – it interrupted it.
The people who built this machine over decades aren’t going to dismantle it because of one vote. They’re going to double down. The NGOs are still funded. The lawfare networks are still active. The media alignment is still total in many sectors.
But something has changed: millions of Americans finally see it.
The spell is broken. The loneliness is gone. People know they’re not crazy anymore.
That’s the first real victory. And it might be enough.
But only if we don’t let our guard down now.
The revolution was never about one election, one president, or one party. It was about transforming the country permanently. And the people behind it still hold most of the cultural high ground.
The fight isn’t over. It’s just entering a new phase.
And this time, we see them coming.
Sometimes you don’t realize you couldn’t breathe until you finally take that first full breath again.
That’s exactly how millions of Americans felt on November 5, 2024. After years of suffocating pressure, something shifted. The air felt different. But here’s the uncomfortable truth nobody wants to say out loud: the people who spent the last decade trying to strangle the country haven’t packed up and gone home. They’re wounded, angry, and still embedded in every major institution. And they’re already planning the next move.
A retired three-star general who knows the intelligence world inside out recently laid out the most sober assessment I’ve ever read about what we’ve actually been living through. He didn’t call it “politics as usual.” He called it what it is: a slow-motion color revolution against the United States, run from the inside.
The American Color Revolution No One Noticed
Most people think color revolutions happen in far-away places – Kiev, Tbilisi, Cairo. Crowds in the streets, flags waving, a charismatic leader on a stage. That’s the Hollywood version.
What happened here was quieter. No single supreme leader. No red book everyone carried. Instead, the revolution marched through conference rooms, HR departments, university syllabi, and classified briefing papers. It used memos instead of Molotov cocktails – at least at first.
The blueprint came straight from Antonio Gramsci’s prison notebooks: capture the culture first, and the politics will follow. Take over the institutions that shape how people think, and you won’t need tanks in the streets. You’ll get voluntary compliance.
And for a long time, it was working beautifully.
The Long March Didn’t Happen Overnight
Think back ten, fifteen years. The changes felt gradual, almost benign. A new mandatory training here. A quietly rewritten history curriculum there. One newsroom after another falling into perfect narrative alignment. A federal agency suddenly discovering that patriotism was suspicious.
Each step seemed small on its own. Taken together, they amounted to the most comprehensive ideological takeover any Western nation has ever experienced.
The genius of the American version was its fragmentation. Because it never declared itself openly, it never faced unified resistance. It captured one school board while losing another. Took one intelligence directorate while another held out. The uneven pace actually helped it – people kept telling themselves “it’s not that bad” right up until it was.
The Professional Revolutionary Class
Here’s where it gets chilling.
Most Americans still imagine “activists” as passionate college kids or community organizers working odd jobs. The reality is far more organized – and far better funded.
We’re talking about a full-time, salaried revolutionary caste. People who wake up every day and go to work planning protests, writing narratives, training the next cadre, and – most importantly – coordinating with each other across seemingly unrelated causes.
- Same donors
- Same training programs
- Same legal shields
- Same messaging within hours of any event
- Same ability to mobilize thousands on command
Call them what you want – social justice, climate justice, racial equity – underneath the branding they operate as a single organism. And they’ve been remarkably successful at presenting themselves as separate grassroots movements while functioning as the street muscle of a much larger project.
DEI as Psychological Warfare
I’ve sat through those trainings. You probably have too.
They don’t call it reeducation, of course. They call it “building inclusive culture” or “interrupting bias.” But make no mistake: the goal is to make you afraid to speak normally. To make you second-guess reality itself.
If you can force people to say things they know aren’t true – in public, with a smile – you’ve broken something fundamental. That’s the whole point.
When every conversation becomes a potential career-ending minefield, most people choose silence. Silence becomes compliance. Compliance becomes collaboration. It’s brilliant in its cruelty.
And it worked. For years, good people kept their heads down, convinced they were the only ones who saw what was happening. The loneliness was part of the weapon.
The Great Red-Washing of History
At the same time all this was happening in workplaces and schools, something else was occurring in the background: the systematic erasure of any memory that could warn us.
Try finding a mainstream high school textbook that still teaches the hundred million deaths under communism. Try finding a university class that treats the Gulag or the Cultural Revolution as anything more than footnotes. The past was being red-washed – scrubbed clean of the evidence that could have helped an entire generation recognize the pattern.
My grandfather would have spotted this in a heartbeat. My kids’ teachers call it “progress.”
2020: The Perfect Storm
Then came 2020.
A novel virus. Global panic. Locked-down populations. Police forces vilified and defunded. Cities burning night after night while cable news called it “mostly peaceful.”
It wasn’t spontaneous. You don’t get synchronized arson and identical slogans in fifty cities by accident. Someone had prepared the ground perfectly.
The goal wasn’t to win policy debates. The goal was exhaustion. To make normal life feel impossible. To make people desperate for order – any order.
January 6: The Trap Springs Shut
Here’s where the color revolution playbook becomes crystal clear.
After a year of watching downtowns burn with official blessing, one afternoon of chaos at the Capitol became “an insurrection” – the worst attack since the Civil War, we were told.
The riots stopped the next day. The narrative flipped overnight. Suddenly only one kind of political violence was unacceptable.
That wasn’t coincidence. That was the spark they needed – the justification to unleash the full apparatus of state against half the population.
Thousands of people who walked between velvet ropes and took selfies are still in prison years later. Grandmothers. Veterans. People who never touched a door.
Meanwhile the people who actually burned police stations in 2020? Most never even charged.
The message was crystal clear: there are two sets of rules, and which one applies to you depends entirely on your politics.
The Quiet Purge Inside Government
But the real horror was happening out of sight.
Conservative and religious federal employees – thousands of them – were apparently flagged, tracked, and referred to agencies under pretexts ranging from social media posts to vaccine refusal. Some ended up on lists that look disturbingly like enemies lists.
This wasn’t incompetence. This was deliberate ideological cleansing of the permanent bureaucracy.
And it almost worked.
Where We Stand Today
The 2024 election didn’t end the color revolution – it interrupted it.
The people who built this machine over decades aren’t going to dismantle it because of one vote. They’re going to double down. The NGOs are still funded. The lawfare networks are still active. The media alignment is still total in many sectors.
But something has changed: millions of Americans finally see it.
The spell is broken. The loneliness is gone. People know they’re not crazy anymore.
That’s the first real victory. And it might be enough.
But only if we don’t let our guard down now.
The revolution was never about one election, one president, or one party. It was about transforming the country permanently. And the people behind it still hold most of the cultural high ground.
The fight isn’t over. It’s just entering a new phase.
And this time, we see them coming.
