> "We need to build a heckin' bench!"

The battlecry of the Conservative Intellectual. Categorically false, of course.

The core facet of all these peoples' narratives is that the left is organic and independent. It's a blatant lie, but they can't go without it because admitting that it's a lie is catastrophic to their self image, and to their elevator pitch. If the left isn't a group of organic, self-organized true believers, then they can't be countered by having some dork attempt to debate them - it'd be like debating the aliens from Blindsight, who can speak in order to negotiate but are not conscious nor ideological. We don't need to build a bench (by giving sinecures to this guy and all his useless friends) - we absolutely would solve everything by purging our enemies' leadership.

Rather, the Left is a top-down organization - wipe out the Lawyer's Guild in its time, pick off maybe a four digit number of people, and ban new entries, and the left never exists again. The Right, on the other hand, is truly organic - everything from Trump to GG to the trucker protest have been bottom-up.

If the Right 'wins' - if it takes power in America - all it needs to do is expunge the people at the top of the lefties' chain of command. There's no fallback system; there's no organic support. Without internet censorship, their pretense of winning the culture war is as dead and gone as it was in '16. Without their activist judges, CA would still be a vibrant red. Righties can organize in small groups, organically, and fight off any problems in their towns, so long as they aren't blocked from above. Any power vaccuum would be filled by people we'd like - the only task at hand is creating one.