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Was listening to Moldbug here and he made a great analogy around the 51 minute mark.
(Context - him shitting on rufo and desantis and people like them who think they can make ideological change in the courts/through laws.)
In order to match the power the left has in our society the right would have to do something like the following:
Imagine there were judicial tribunals created for the abolition of critical race theory. filled with ex-patriot prayer members, white activists, etc. Of course now 'reformed' (they went back to law school after all). People who were 10-20 years ago were once alt-righters would be fining and even jailing their ideological opponents in banana courts.
Think about how absurd that sounds. Then recognize this is what exists today in the west, except from the opposite side. This is the way our current judiciary works. This is human rights tribunals. Ex-left wing terrorists are judges and advisors to deep power. The patent absurdity of the opposite happening demonstrates just how far the right is from any sort of power in the west.
The government was canceling training sessions and the industry was worried it was going to cease to exist. They weren't outright ignoring the EO the way they ignored Trump trying to pull troops out of Afghanistan and Syria. That tells me it had some teeth, at least temporarily.