Whoever would lead America’s deplorables must head up a national effort to discredit and stop the totalitarian tactics of the Left. By Angelo Codevilla.

Who will lead the deplorables’ exodus from the bondage that the political-corporate-cultural oligarchy imposes on America? The power that the oligarchy has gathered since 2015 pales by comparison with the resentment it created thereby, and the wave of public opinion that is building against it.

America’s deplorables, clingers, irredeemables, chumps, dregs, neanderthals, etc. — persecuted, increasingly prosecuted for being on the wrong side of the oligarchy — yearn for political leaders to rescue their way of life. Demand is so high because most self-proclaimed conservative leaders talk the voters’ talk, but walk the big donors’ oligarchic walk….

Who are the current front runners?

More than anyone, Ron DeSantis has used his position as Florida’s governor to lead by deeds more than by words in a number of these tasks. ….

Senator Josh Hawley (R-Mo.), unable as a senator to take executive actions, has called onto himself the ire that the oligarchy heaps on the millions of Americans who refuse to swallow the narrative that the 2020 presidential election was free and fair. …

Senator Rand Paul (R-Ky.), himself a medical doctor, called to account Dr. Anthony Fauci, the oligarchy’s point man on COVID-19 restrictions, for his many misrepresentations and lies about scientific matters.