The process of ideological subversion is a generational project, as former KGB operative Yuri Bezmenov explained in a groundbreaking 1984 interview.
The first stage, demoralization, takes 15 to 20 years — exactly as long as it takes to educate one generation of students and expose them to the ideology of the subverter without any counterbalancing national values to weigh it against.
The goal of demoralization, Bezmenov explained, is not to convince people of anything. It is to make them incapable of processing reality accurately. Once a person is demoralized, he said, we cannot change their mind even if we expose them to authentic information. They are no longer receiving information. They are receiving confirmation of what they have already been programmed to feel.
Yuri Bezmenov was describing 1984. He was also describing right now, wrote Ido Singer in a post to our friend Rod D. Martin’s must-read substack.
Trump Derangement Syndrome is one example of the effectiveness of the Left’s long demoralization campaign against the American people – it is undoubtedly true that millions of Americans are simply incapable of processing accurately any information related to Donald Trump and his policies.
While the process of demoralization is a generational process, once the population has become sufficiently susceptible, its utility to the subversive is situational, so we see it applied before elections, and never more so than now, going into the 2026 midterm congressional election.
And useful idiots on the Right are among the most important assets in the deployment of the Left’s demoralization campaign this election cycle.
Instead of pointing out the many successes and advantages Republicans and conservatives have going into the midterm elections these “panicans” or anti-conservatives are spending their airtime and energy regurgitating Democrat talking points and contributing to the demoralization of the Republican Party’s voters.
Here are a couple of examples culled from the headlines in the just the past week:
“It points out the obvious that Republicans are in pretty bad shape going into the midterms and that they’re looking at historic losses,” GOP “strategist” Terry Holt told The New York Post.
“The question is whether some of these races can be saved with some miraculous turnout that apparently is going to be very expensive or whether or not the mood in this country can be changed fundamentally,” Holt added, according to reporting by the UK’s Independent.
And…
Republicans are in danger of losing control of the House in next year’s midterm elections amid growing voter concern about affordability, former Ohio Republican governor John Kasich said Thursday in an interview with Newsweek.
Democratic victories last month in state and local elections that turned on affordability issues and a closer-than-expected congressional race this week in Tennessee underscored the public’s mounting unease with the direction of the economy under President Donald Trump, Kasich said.
“The voters have spoken. They believe that the economy is not in good shape and they’re upset about rising prices,” said Kasich, a former House lawmaker and longtime Trump critic who ran for the 2016 Republican presidential nomination. “And Republicans know it.”
The 2026 midterms are “going to be very tough for the Republicans,” Kasich added. “I expect they’re not going to hold the House.”
It should surprise no one that Kasich’s observations ended up on the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee’s website.
Part of the reason that alleged Republicans, such as Holt and Kasich, are so easy for the Left to turn into useful idiots is their outsized egos. They know the best way to get their faces on TV is to criticize Trump and they will get an “I told you so” moment if the midterms do go against the President, but that no one will actually call them if – and when – their dire predictions turn out to be wrong.
But making correct or incorrect predictions about the election results is not the point: The point is to get conservatives to give up, and to stay on the sidelines in this existential battle for the future of American constitutional liberty.
As we can see, observed Albin Sadar in a 2024 article for Blaze Media, demoralization brings about an attitude of "What’s the use?" And excuses such as, "You can’t fight the machine.” And inaction associated with, “If I stand up, will anyone join me?”
Demoralization even induces some Christians employ similar thinking to rationalize in their own hearts and minds their reasons to stay on the sidelines of the present-day fight to preserve basic tenets of America’s foundation. In a world where "evil is called good and good evil," many people who fill church pews Sunday after Sunday will be tempted to sit this election out. It's as if they have turned Doris Day's “Que Sera Sera” into a solemn hymn — “Whatever will be will be,” Mr. Sadar noted, riffing on Eric Metaxas’ book “Religionless Christianity.”
Today, we conservatives face three enemies that rely on demoralization as central elements of their plan to destroy American constitutional liberty.
The first you’ve already met – the anti-conservative useful idiots who, to massage their outsized egos, are acting as a fifth column within the Republican Party.
The other two, Marxists and Sharia-supremacist Muslims, are masters of information warfare and the use of demoralization against their opponents.
Both Muslims and Marxists relentlessly promote the idea that history is on their side, that their victory is inevitable – that Islam will enter every house and that capitalism and constitutional liberty will be replaced by a billionaire-free Marxist utopia with “free” healthcare and “free” education for all.
The Republican Party and President Trump should use this week's Republican Midterm Convention to demonstrate that neither of those outcomes are actually inevitable. Donald Trump won the popular vote in 2024, proving that a majority of Americans had not yet succumbed to the Left's demoralization campaign. To defeat them all we have to do is show up, because the inevitability of those outcomes is solely dependent upon conservatives buying the lies behind their demoralization campaigns and staying home this election.
George Rasley is editor of Richard Viguerie's ConservativeHQ.com and is a veteran of over 300 political campaigns. A member of American MENSA, he served on the staff of Vice President Dan Quayle, as Director of Policy and Communication for former Congressman Adam Putnam (FL-12) then Vice Chairman of the Oversight and Government Reform Committee's Subcommittee on National Security and Foreign Affairs, and as spokesman for retired Rep. Mac Thornberry formerly a member of the House Intelligence Committee and Chairman of the House Armed Services Committee.
