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Inside the American RedoubtReposted from Conservatives Leaving California on FacebookNorth Idaho has long been home to those seeking to escape the looming collapse of America. This is a region doused in frontier spirit; a land where people openly carry guns, and where bounty hunters still operate, tracking down fugitives hoping to bolt into Canada. It is here, on rugged fringes stalked by mountain lions, bears and wolves, that the American Redoubt was born.The Redoubt is both a prophecy and a movement: a pre-emptive response to the anarchy on the horizon. Economic meltdown, nuclear war, the lawlessness that will follow the total defunding of the police — all, its followers warn, could bring an end to American civilization. And so they have started to prepare. First, by relocating to easily defensible ranches in the wilderness; and second, by stocking up on food, firearms and fuel. While their country teeters on the brink of bedlam, they are building a fortress.If the Redoubt has a Messiah, it is James Wesley, Rawles. (The comma is an affectation.) A former US Army intelligence officer, Rawles has spent decades preaching about America’s imminent implosion to thousands of Christian conservatives, and the importance of them retreating to the mountains. They first flocked to him in 1998, after his book Patriots, both a survivalist manifesto and a novel about the country’s descent into disorder, became a surprise bestseller. The Daily Beast called it “the most dangerous novel in America”; others claimed it “could one day mean the difference between life and death”. Such hyperbole only widened his appeal.COMMENTARY: However, his vision of an American Redoubt included what is now the eastern halves of both Washington state and Oregon, and those boundaries no longer completely reflect those values. MOST of eastern Oregon wants to secede from their state and join Idaho as "Greater Idaho." The same cannot be said for eastern Washington state any longer. Too much radical left wing influence has moved into what was once considered a conservative bastion in the so-called "Liberty State" named after our first president. George Washington would be rolling in his grave if he knew the state named in his honor had turned into a leftist liberal #cesspool if not a veritable #shithole . Unless you have lived there, you cannot full appreciate what I am saying. I've been there and done that, and have no desire to ever return there except maybe to visit relatives who I wish I could get to leave the #cesspool .If you view the attached map, I have redrawn the lines further east to include the states of North and South Dakota. You won't find more people anywhere else who share the same values outlined aboveYou can read the original post for this narrative below.https://unherd.com/2023/11/inside-the-american-redoubt/The Great American Redoubt Maphttps://imgflip.com/i/89a206Original facebook permalink below:https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=122097390920155729&set=a.122096380928155729