When you win a battle, you must follow up. Meade may have been able to end the Civil War after Pickett's Charge was repelled at Gettysburg, but he allowed Lee to retreat in good order. A better general would not have done that.
It is a mistake we must not make.
There are people now -- not on the Right but not hard-core 'Progressives' either -- who only vaguely followed this case through the Mainstream Media ... they believed that Rittenhouse was a 'white supremacist' (well, didn't Mr Biden say so?), who drove a long distance to a strange town in order to kill peaceful protestors, which he did after deliberately provoking them.
The videos shown during the trial proved that all that was a lie. This kid was practically a saint, and the people he defended himself against were human garbage, even by the standards of the Left -- George Floyd even looks good compared to the one who liked to rape little boys.
(If I were making a patriotic movie about a case like this -- before it happened -- and someone submitted a script with such black-and-white Good Patriots and Evil Progressives, I would send it back and ask them to make it more realistic ... give our hero some faults, put an innocent idealistic dupe among the people who were killed, a pretty college girl or someone like that. In Kenosha, life imitated bad art!)
The hard core enemy, of course, cares nothing for truth, so they are still repeating the same lies. But some people have had their eyes opened here. We have a chance to drive a wedge between honest liberals and center folk, on the one hand, and the hard-core Progressive/communist enemy on the other.
We ought to talk about how to do this. It's all very well talking to each other -- and chortling over the victory in Kenosha. (I haven't been this high since I ate too many brownies with some funny herb in them when I was staying with hippies in Bezerkeley fifty years ago.)
But we need to follow up the victory -- and reach out to our left, to the middle, to draw them away from the MSM and the other institutions of the Globalist Hardcore Left.
One idea: wherever we can, let's challenge local hardcore Leftists to a debate on the Kenosha Verdict. Either they accept, and get thrashed ... or they refuse, and look like they don't believe what they're saying. Such a challenge, and the outcome, should be publicized widely. Do this wherever we have a patriotic group. (And why don't we have them everywhere -- if we're not organized, we'll lose.)
Other ideas? Maybe a leaflet with the facts of the case, which we can leave about in public places? Letters to the editor of local papers?
We have had a successful defense against an enemy attack. He is now retreating, in disarray, demoralized. If we just sit and gloat, within a few weeks, this will all be forgotten. We need to get up out of the trenches and attack.
