Remember, the right wing is scared shitless of people like us winning. We're *their* Thing That Goes Bump In The Night, and it wouldn't be that way if we were even half as weak as we tend to think we are.

Among other things, the queer furry/fannish crowd has shown *amazing* resistance to reactionary politics. The alt-right made an explicit effort to infiltrate us and were routed good and hard. We ARE the bulwark, and while the psychic siege continues, we are holding.

Our opponents fight like nothing so much as ringwraiths, or maybe the echthroi from A Wind In The Door. They give their enemies despair and their allies a false sense of impunity. They wield some real power, but their ability to actually build anything sustainable is *sharply* limited. (The degree to which they remind me of late-Soviet apparatchiks is amazing, honestly—old grey men, so far up their own asses ideologically, they don't see the foundations are crumbling right underneath them.)

Even their politics can only exist because they're burning through old compromises—compromises that won't be there to protect them from us when the winds change. We are their monsters. We are our respective countries' T-cells and macrophages.

All we have to do is now is not give in to despair, and believe just as hard as they do. Specifically, we have to believe that their days are numbered and the future, if there is one, is ours. There IS no glorious Republican future, because what they're doing will simply not work. I think we're all in agreement with that here. There is only our world or no world at all, and nobody in a state of any real power—or any state except utter desperation—would opt for the latter.