The Samuel Adams option

I think, in part, many of us are doing this already.

So what did Samuel Adams and other patriots do?

• They formed Committees of Correspondence—connecting patriots to each other across the different towns and villages within individual colonies and with each other.

• They developed their own media to promote “the rights of the colonists, and of this province [Massachusetts] in particular, as men, as Christians, and as subjects; to communicate and publish the same to the several towns in this province and to the world as the sense of this town.”

• They protected themselves from the “cancel culture” of their era by often using pseudonyms and forming secret societies.

• They used symbolic acts of resistance like the Boston Tea Party to mobilize public opinion.

• They worked within the system as much as possible—petitioning allies within the British government.

• They published the names and exposed the merchants who imported British goods and undermined American industry.

This election, with the riots and the cancel culture in full swing, has forced a lot of folks to re-examine what it is they're doing.  And it's hardened quite a few opinions about the Left.