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Rules for Retrogrades: Forty Tactics to Defeat the Radical Left

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What is a retrograde?

A retrograde calculates, night and day, how to return the world to:

  • the Old Order of moral and sexual decency,

  • classical masculinity,

  • national sovereignty and national borders,

  • faith and hope and charity,

  • goodness and beauty and truth,

  • Christian civic liberty,

  • and most importantly, the social kingship of Christ.

In the words of Shakespeare, a retrograde is one of God's spies.

The retrograde has the unique capacity for understanding the stark chasm between the degenerate, socialist-infiltrated world of decay on one side and the well-meaning, good-hearted, but clueless Christian world on the other.

In a time of such profound decay, being one of God's spies is a last resort and a pure necessity: it involves not "deep cover,"--i.e., acting like the enemy--but rather "half cover" acting as a "contra" in the secular arena, a crypto-Christian counterinsurgent willing to fight like a Navy Seal and to think like a counterintel officer.

Retrogrades . . . to the streets: our aim is to reverse the deliberate, deuced machinations of "radicals" like Saul Alinsky who, by penning the rulebook of radicalism, threw down a challenge that has, until now, gone unanswered. Rules for Retrogrades is the handbook men of good will need to win the culture war Here is a sampling from the call to action found within these pages:

  • No truth is "off-limits"; we must never be ashamed to be candid.

  • It is a damnable lie that humility disallows Christians from standing up (for what they believe) in the cultural and political forum

  • Control of language is control of thought; don't let radicals control the language.

  • Never trust a man who is unwilling to have enemies.

  • Radicals form coalitions but retrogrades form fellowships.

  • The root of cultural decay is feminism: end feminism to end radicalism.

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