{"id":6831,"date":"2022-07-11T07:44:37","date_gmt":"2022-07-11T11:44:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.deanriffs.com\/?p=6831"},"modified":"2022-08-04T09:52:25","modified_gmt":"2022-08-04T13:52:25","slug":"book-review-well-be-back-the-fall-and-rise-of-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.deanriffs.com\/index.php\/2022\/07\/11\/book-review-well-be-back-the-fall-and-rise-of-america\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Review:  We\u2019ll Be Back \u2013 The Fall and Rise of America"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left wp-block-paragraph\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"225\" height=\"339\" class=\"wp-image-6833\" style=\"width: 225px;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.deanriffs.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Schlichter.jpg\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.deanriffs.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Schlichter.jpg 232w, https:\/\/www.deanriffs.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Schlichter-199x300.jpg 199w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Type:&nbsp;<strong>Non-fiction<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Category:&nbsp;<strong>Current Affairs<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Author:&nbsp;<strong>Kurt Schlichter<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Pages:&nbsp;<strong>303<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Publisher:&nbsp;<strong>Regnery<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">List Price (Hardcover):&nbsp;<strong>$26.99<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I\u2019m not a lawyer, but I\u2019ve seen enough Perry Mason re-runs to know a good case is based on smart strategy and pragmatism. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In \u201c<em><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Well-Be-Back-Fall-America-ebook\/dp\/B09MDKSWLC\/ref=sr_1_2?crid=DF32QZPBSKCS&amp;keywords=kurt+schlichter+books&amp;qid=1657405828&amp;sprefix=Kurt+Sc%2Caps%2C412&amp;sr=8-2\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>We\u2019ll Be Back \u2013 The Fall and Rise of America<\/strong><\/a><\/em>,\u201d California trial lawyer, Town Hall columnist and retired Army Infantry Colonel Kurt Schlichter presents a compelling case that our sock puppet president may be dragging America down and out, but it\u2019s premature to write us off as a 21<sup>st<\/sup> century Roman Empire in ruins or Orwell\u2019s Oceana.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Thousands of readers know Schlichter for his caustic wit and how he routinely incites pearl clutching among liberals and Never Trump Republicans in his tri-weekly <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/townhall.com\/columnists\/kurtschlichter\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Town Hall columns<\/strong><\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In this new non-fiction gem, he skillfully walks a literary tightrope with a well-researched narrative that is brutally honest, hopefully optimistic, and sprinkled liberally (pun intended) with his trademark humor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Schlichter notes the U.S. has become flabby with prosperity, self-indulgent and lazy just like the citizens of ancient Rome. The virtues and checks and balances on government intrusions designed by the Founding Fathers have been carelessly discarded and discredited, solely for the pursuit of power, he asserts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Recent examples illustrating his point could include the D. C. elite undoing historic safeguards like due process, gun ownership and free speech as the J6 committee locks up Capitol Hill protestors indefinitely for, gasp, trespassing; Congress bribes states to employ red flag gun laws, and the sultans of Silicon Valley wantonly stifle open discussions on the Internet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"450\" height=\"193\" class=\"wp-image-6838\" style=\"width: 450px;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.deanriffs.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Schlichter-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.deanriffs.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Schlichter-2.jpg 960w, https:\/\/www.deanriffs.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Schlichter-2-300x128.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.deanriffs.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Schlichter-2-768x329.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Schlichter writes how America was at its best in 1991 when defeating Iraq, before morphing 30 years later into the rudderless republic we are today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The central premise of \u201c<em>We\u2019ll Be Back<\/em>\u201d is that America is headed for a historic showdown if conservatives don&#8217;t regain electoral control. \u201cColonel K\u201d outlines the different ways that could play out: a national divorce between red states and blue states (as detailed in his six-book <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/s?k=Kurt+Schlichter&amp;crid=2N6TESLUBFK80&amp;sprefix=kurt+schlichter%2Caps%2C580&amp;ref=nb_sb_noss_1\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Kelly Turnbull fiction series<\/strong><\/a>), a second civil war, or subjugation by China or <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.deanriffs.com\/index.php\/2021\/06\/17\/irresistible-revolution-book-review\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>American Marxists<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Schlichter offers thoughtful commentary on all three scenarios, including a civil war brought on by a blue rebellion against a red federal government (less likely because blue states are not contiguous and \u201cits population consists of those needing to be fed rather than those doing the feeding.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A more likely scenario would be red Americans fighting a blue federal government, and again the red states would have the advantage due to a vast connected land mass and troop composition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cDo you see a lot of transsexual mime studies majors dropping out of Gumbo State to join the Army to fight guerillas in the Ozarks?\u201d he asks. \u201cThe Antifa street punk stuff is all fun and games, especially since the cops are there to protect them, but war is different,\u201d Schlichter notes in Chapter 10\u2019s <em>The Second Civil War: Red Revolution<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" class=\"wp-image-6841\" style=\"width: 300px;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.deanriffs.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Schlichter-3.jpg\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.deanriffs.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Schlichter-3.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/www.deanriffs.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Schlichter-3-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.deanriffs.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Schlichter-3-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.deanriffs.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Schlichter-3-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.deanriffs.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Schlichter-3-440x250.jpg 440w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Regarding Chinese influence over our economy, Schlichter wryly notes in Chapter 11\u2019s <em>The China Crisis<\/em>, \u201cThey outsource their R&amp;D, and largely steal it from us. We outsource our manufacturing, then pay to import it back.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He also expounds that China\u2019s mushrooming influence on American society is made possible by opportunistic leaders of both political parties, \u201ccomposed of the corrupt and the clownish, and usually both at once.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As mordant as the subject of the fall of America is, Colonel K throws readers a lifeline of hope in the final three chapters on how we can crawl out of the abyss of hopelessness and indifference.  As he notes in Chapter 14\u2019s <em>America Comes to Its Senses<\/em>, the Constitution has not failed. Conservatives just need to rally enough Americans around to our way of thinking.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The alternatives vividly described by the author in chapters 3-12 are too awful to do anything less than rally our fellow citizens.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Chapter 13\u2019s <em>The Authoritarian Temptation <\/em>is fun to fantasize about but unlike the donkey party, conservatives don\u2019t color outside the constitutional lines.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In various chapters Schlichter underscores a point with fictional vignettes, and none is more hopeful and inspiring than the one in Chapter 16\u2019s <em>The Decision Point: 2024<\/em>. Readers will be pumping their fists at the description of a conservative Republican president who, in his first acts as president on January 20, 2025, begins draining the swamp by firing FBI Director Christopher Wray, every general on the Joint Chiefs of Staff and Dr. Anthony Fauci.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And that is just an appetizer for what follows, such as defunding universities lacking &#8220;ideological diversity&#8221; and firing every federal employee that has \u201cdiversity,\u201d \u201cinclusion\u201d or \u201cequity\u201d in their job title.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"250\" height=\"313\" class=\"wp-image-6842\" style=\"width: 250px;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.deanriffs.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Schlichter-4.jpeg\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.deanriffs.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Schlichter-4.jpeg 600w, https:\/\/www.deanriffs.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Schlichter-4-240x300.jpeg 240w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe\u2019ll Be Back\u201d is provocative, insightful and well researched.  The colonel strategically maps out how conservatives can effectively combat the ruthlessness and evil of the past few years, reclaim the God-given rights that have made America great and restore our country as a moral, sovereign and economic powerhouse.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To read my review of Kurt Schlichter\u2019s previous non-fiction best-seller, <em>The 21 Biggest Lies About Donald Trump (and you!)<\/em>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.deanriffs.com\/index.php\/2020\/08\/03\/the-21-biggest-lies-about-donald-trump-and-you-book-review\/\"><strong>cl<\/strong><\/a><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.deanriffs.com\/index.php\/2020\/08\/03\/the-21-biggest-lies-about-donald-trump-and-you-book-review\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">ick here<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><em>Thanks for reading Dean Riffs. Welcome to all those who love American liberty, free enterprise, and who believe God has blessed our country<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Copyright 2022, Dean A. George\u00a9&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Type:&nbsp;Non-fiction Category:&nbsp;Current Affairs Author:&nbsp;Kurt Schlichter Pages:&nbsp;303 Publisher:&nbsp;Regnery List Price (Hardcover):&nbsp;$26.99 I\u2019m not a lawyer, but I\u2019ve seen enough Perry Mason re-runs to know a good case is based on smart strategy and pragmatism. In \u201cWe\u2019ll Be Back \u2013 The Fall and Rise of America,\u201d California trial lawyer, Town Hall columnist &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[738],"tags":[28,809,689,690,807,808,806],"class_list":["post-6831","post","type-post","status-publish","format-quote","hentry","category-dean-riffs-book-reviews","tag-dean-riffs","tag-kelly-turnbull","tag-kurt-schlichter","tag-the-21-biggest-lies-about-donald-trump","tag-the-rise-and-fall-of-america","tag-town-hall-columns","tag-well-be-back","post_format-post-format-quote"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9iuwk-1Mb","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deanriffs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6831","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deanriffs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deanriffs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deanriffs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deanriffs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6831"}],"version-history":[{"count":36,"href":"https:\/\/www.deanriffs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6831\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6976,"href":"https:\/\/www.deanriffs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6831\/revisions\/6976"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deanriffs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deanriffs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deanriffs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}