@Deleted User I think the disconnect comes in that Matt is more or less happy with the status quo of, say, 5 years ago--and we haven't lost enough ground since then that he feels it as a boiling-frog emergency in the seat of his pants at all times.
I think he's wrong--the situation is more dire than he feels it is--but he isn't perceiving it as the existential threat that it is and so he is still treating it like a purely political game, where principles are important, rather than a total war, where winning is paramount.
Also I don't think he has a clear sense of what 'winning' would look like, which is a problem the Right shares generally, unless you're a literal Nazi in which case the end game is pretty clear, if distasteful.
