I’m quite aware of the thesis presented in Shemita.
I still have the pre-release copy I reviewed for C_O.
I simply do not share his appreciation for the Mormon, and other, tribal collectivism implicit in the proposed “solution”.
Preferring instead a Reformation of American Ideals, where the purpose of governance is to secure the inalienable rights of the Individual, rather than subjugating them via tribal theocratic Shock and Awe.
LOL, those would be pagan ideals sonny, originating in the poetry of Titus Lucretius Carus (a fave of the philosophes of The Enlightenment).