You can't freely assemble on the streets, in homes, in bars, or churches.

You can't speak freely online.

Your representatives are stripped of their ability to represent you because of past social media opinions.

You can be fired for your current ones.

America is dead.

"It's not dead. We'll get it back."

How?

If your plan is, "Win elections, and immediately go back to following the old rules by which we lost, for the sake of principle," you don't get it.

I liked the old rules, too.

But we're hosed for good unless we can be ruthless.

Democrats must fear for their ability to work, speak, govern, and freely associate as much as you do today. They must be treated no longer as yesterday's Democrats, but as today's Communists... Which they are.

Socially pressure rank and file, regular folks to denounce Communism.

As for elected Dems, censure every one who broke rules in previous term in pushing Communism. Punish every flouting of House and Senate rules to expedite legislation.

Call them Communists. (Not socialists or liberals.) Identify them as totalitarians.

Punish them. Pressure them.