I honestly do think that Trump is on the path to rooting out things. With his executive orders about Critical Theory and being able to fire more public workers, he clearly is pointed in the right direction even if it took 4 years to get there.

Of course he can only do so much, and the real targets to look for are the ones in schools and media. Technology companies as well of course.

No matter what happens it's going to be a while before anything gets solved definitively, and that's not down to just one person in office. It's an effort that can take more than a lifetime to help and requires very many people working together to accomplish.

there will likely be a civil war rather than submission

Speaking of someone being more optimistic....

And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family? Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling with terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand?

After all, you knew ahead of time that those bluecaps were out at night for no good purpose. And you could be sure ahead of time that you'd be cracking the skull of a cutthroat. Or what about the Black Maria sitting out there on the street with one lonely chauffeur - what if it had been driven off or its tires spiked? The Organs would very quickly have suffered a shortage of officers and transport and, notwithstanding all of Stalin's thirst, the cursed machine would have ground to a halt!

If . . . if . . . We didn't love freedom enough. And even more - we had no awareness of the real situation. We spent ourselves in one unrestrained outburst in 1917, and then we hurried to submit. We submitted with pleasure!