Whittle isn’t any more sanguine than he was last week upon seeing the results of the election. In fact, he’s absorbing the consequences of that vote and concluding that modern America is cannibalizing the achievements of our forefathers and leaving a rotting carcass behind.

But he swears to stay in the fight. For, as he notes those who enlisted during World War II, the duration. For the rest of his life, because the fight against societal decline never ends.