THE LONG COUNTER-MARCH:
The Counter-March – What You Actually Do on Monday
Gramsci’s side won because ordinary people made ordinary career decisions with a fifty-year horizon. Not heroes. Teachers, editors, functionaries, each one making a choice that looked small. That is the whole secret, and it is… https://t.co/OL0y9fZ1Kb
— Krzysztof Szczawinski 🇵🇱 (@Kristof_Poland) September 5, 2026
Read the whole thing, but this last point stands out: “Play the fifty-year game. The march took from 1968 to roughly 2015 to complete. Anyone expecting a decisive victory in one electoral cycle will quit in disappointment, which is itself part of why the other side won. Choose things that compound: skills, institutions, children, reputations.”
I’d also add that conservatives largely checked out (or were forced out) of the arts — and that was every bit as damaging as any political or economic losses.