“So then, what are the appropriate means today to restore free government?”
You can’t. It’s over. Face facts. We are in an airliner traveling 450 knots, at a 40 degree downward angle, and we just passed through 500 feet AGL. Nothing can prevent impact.
The only way back now is after cataclysmic violence worse than the civil war, or possibly the aftermath of a nuclear war, or a complete economic collapse that forces the people to search for something new.
But there’s not a political process that can fix a deep spiritual and moral problem. Sorry for the bad news.
What happens after the fighting is over?