I've been thinking on the below post, about the NGO problem. The Left is structured as a network of NGOs: ruthlessly efficient and ready to act the moment power changes hands. The Right has no equivalent infrastructure. If I sit down and ask myself, "How would I start an NGO to implement a conservative agenda in D.C.?" ... I draw a blank. Because the dominant instinct on the Right isn't to build, it's to dismantle. Most conservative goals center on shrinking or limiting the federal government. That creates a fundamental asymmetry. NGOs on the Left are designed to expand state power through policy scaffolding, and once federal funding flows in, it's nearly impossible to tear down. It would take an act of Congress to defund these mechanisms, and Congress rarely votes to shrink its own power. So, we can't fight fire with fire. As I see it, there are only three paths forward (not mutually exclusive): 1. Keep scaling the existing DOGE efforts. 2. Replace the majority of Congress with people willing to shut the spigot. 3. Trigger a Convention of States and rewrite the rules from outside the system. Each path demands broad public support, which, again, NGOs don't need. That's part of what makes them so dangerous. They just have to win the influence of a few.

Over the last few months, we've come to a realization that should have landed much harder: NGOs weren't just adjacent to government, they were the parallel government. We were shocked. I was too. But looking back, it's exactly what you'd expect. NGOs operate outside the chain of command. They answer to no electorate, no oversight, no public mandate. They can push any agenda they choose without accountability. So the real question isn't how this happened, or even why. The real question is: why were we surprised? The moment Biden took office, the plan was already in motion. NGOs had the infrastructure, the logistics, the funding pipelines; everything ready to go. They didn't need permission. They just needed power. And when they got it, they had it all set up from day 1: overnight, we were flooded with illegal immigrants under the cover of a coordinated strategy that had been waiting in the wings. I've been acting like this was some secret operation pulled off behind our backs. But it wasn't. I wasn't deceived; I just failed to see what was right in front of me. Because if you wanted to carry out a bloodless coup, this is exactly how you'd do it.