Sydney Powell just filed an emergency appeal with the Supreme Court to order Georgia, Michigan and Arizona to decertify their election results and prevent their electors from voting in the Electoral College. We’ll have to see how that plays out.

Strange times and certainly interesting.

Even though no one can accurately say where we’re going, it’s become common wisdom to say that sometime this past year we reached a point of no return. But actually, arguments could be made for earlier dates.

Some say the 1913 founding of the Federal Reserve irrevocably changed the course of our nation and ended our sovereignty. A quick look at the banking interests who run that private bank certainly lends credence to those claims.

Others might pick November 22, 1963. Whoever sanctioned the bullets in Dallas got away with it and we have to assume those forces are still active, and still powerful.

A case could be made for September 11, 2001. The fall of the towers spawned a two decades war of dubious purpose; it gave us the Patriot Act and the FISA courts; and it enlarged an already bloated intelligence apparatus with the creation of the Department of Homeland Security, which, for my money is right up there with The Ministry of Truth in the Orwellian lexicon.

Many might locate that irrevocable deviation into alternate history somewhere during the Obama years—anywhere during the Obama years.

All topics worthy of analysis and discussion, but probably beyond the scope of our current crisis. For our purposes, the point of no return is January 25, 2017.

That’s the date the Soros funded group “Democracy Alliance” organized a closed door gathering at The Mandarin Hotel in Washington D.C. It lasted four days and its purpose was to strategize how to push the Democratic Party further to the left, and to plot the formal “Resistance” to Trump’s new administration. In attendance, along with 172 Soros groups, were Nancy Pelosi, Elizabeth Warren and then Congressional Progressive Caucus co-chairman Keith Ellison. Their stated intention was to reject any cooperation with the president and to focus all their efforts to destroying his agenda, and then, the man himself.

At that meeting, our Constitutional form of government was abandoned. There would be no loyal opposition; there would be no common ground, no dialogue, nothing that might suggest that Donald Trump was a valid president. Everything that transpired these past four years took place in the ecosystem that arose from that gathering.

The Democrats haven’t just been petulant. They haven’t been in a snit. They haven’t been throwing a four year hissy fit. In truth, the party has become a captured entity, much like any of the East European countries subjugated by the Soviet Union after WWII. These are no longer Democrats. They are hardened, dedicated revolutionaries with one purpose: to destroy the country. And Donald Trump and his populist movement has been in the way. Trump may go down, although, Chris Wallace notwithstanding, that’s by no means a given. But if he exits center stage, he will leave behind a transformed political landscape.

The people who support him have been awakened. One sobering revelation we’ve had to admit is how deeply, and for how long we’d been asleep. The hard left has been perfectly content to masquerade as Democrats, hiding in plain sight, slowly chipping away at the pillars of our culture while we let it happen.

Trump changed that. Some say it’s too late but that’s only true if you pretend we haven’t passed the point of no return. It’s just part of the new reality. What’s left of the old Republican Party will wither and die the deserved death of dinosaurs in a post-asteroid world. Much of the old Democratic Party has already come over to Trump’s side. New additions to the Republicans have already been forged by Trump’s example. Ron DeSantis, Dan Crenshaw, Mat Gretzky, Jim Jordan, the crop of new conservative women in the house who are ready to challenge The Squad for the spotlight and the narrative, as well as old stalwarts like Louis Gohmert, Chuck Grassley and Mitch McConnell, who have tasted the new combativeness and find it pleasing. This will be one of Trump’s lasting legacies.

But far more important is that he forced the left out of their hiding places. They viewed him as such a threat to their agenda—indeed, an existential threat—that they’ve exposed themselves. Never again will their facade serve them. Four years of endless attacks have abolished the lie that they have any interest in the country. They don’t love our country, they love their agenda. The media censorship has finally dispelled any notion that they are anything other than propaganda outlets for the left. The election fraud has revealed the deep corruption, not only in congress and in our intelligence agencies, but at the state and local levels as well. The refusal of the courts to consider the evidence of the theft and the lack of any federal investigative efforts has shown us that we are no longer a nation of laws.

We needed to see this. We needed to have our noses rubbed in the shit. We needed to have the last vestiges of sleep shaken from our eyes. Otherwise we still wouldn’t have wanted to believe it. “They wouldn’t go that far,” is no longer a realistic response.

At this point, the only people who still pretend this election wasn’t stolen are the ideologically blind, the criminally stupid, or those whose level of ignorance approaches the miraculous (thank you Jordan Peterson, for that one) and, of course, the perpetrators and their useful idiots who know damn well what happened and are just fine with it. It was part of the plan.

In all this, as has been the case for the past four years, Trump stands alone. Well, except for the more than 80,000,000 people who voted for him. Except for what’s left of our law enforcement structures. Except for the freshly installed special forces men who now run the Department of Defense, and the men who answer to them.

He’s “losing losing losing” goes the mantra, with each dismissal in this court or that. Is he? Or is this whole process simply part of what we had to see before our eyes?

He’s still the president, and in his last speech to the nation he affirmed that his first duty is to defend The Constitution against all enemies, foreign and domestic. He’s never before walked away from a fight. Now, faced with the absolute certainty of a foreign influenced and funded coup attempt, is he really going to turn away and say, “I give up. Take it, China. It’s all yours.”

I don’t think so.