My view is that the more hostile the takeover the more extreme the measures need to be.
The best way to attack evil to is to attack evil.
The measures Trump is already taking are almost all in court. Short of a new revolution, there’s not much more extreme that is going to be tolerated by this very, very sick dying body that we call the USA.
But the takeover is much, much more than just in this country; it involves the whole world and all the big money in the world The big money has bought off or threatened almost everybody.
This is much harder than trying to get through Mordor to throw the ring of power in the Crack of Doom. Orcs and Oruk-hai are easy to recognize and die at the swing of a sword. Saruman and Sauron had their Wormtongues and Denethors, and many were entranced like Theoden, but the soldiers and hobbits who were supposed to do the fighting were not entranced like Theoden and Sauron had not taken over all the airwaves to convince all the soldiers that Sauron was holy and Aragorn corrupt. What we face is much harder than the prospect of destroying the ring of power.
Anybody who understands any of this would be saying with Gandalf, “Only a fool’s hope for Frodo.” But they would keep fighting anyway, because if you don’t everything is lost. You can give up on Frodo, convinced he’s not the right person to do the job, or you can buy him time to do the only thing that will win the war.
Sometimes the only way to attack evil is a very long process.