Kurt Schlichter - Well Be Back: The Fall and Rise of America

Kurt Schlichter

Well Be Back

The Fall and Rise of America

Slaps you upside the head, whether hes talking about parallels with Roman history, why a free people needs to be an armed people, or the critical importance of God-given rights.

Dan Bongino, national radio host and author

A guided tour of disasters and decline, yet Kurt Schlichter still leads us to that shining city on the hill. Its exciting, thought-provoking, and funny too.

David Limbaugh, author

America is being fundamentally transformed into a commie craphole, and Schlichter has the fighting spirit and the plan to stop it. No bowties and no pearl-clutching, its a manual for the based Right.

Jim Hanson, former Special Forces operator and author

Kurt Schlichter gives you exactly what you expect: something to think about, something to get furious about, and something to laugh about.

Buck Sexton, national radio host and intelligence analyst

Kurt Schlichter pulls no punches as he exposes the dark goals and ruthless tactics of the Democrat/Communists destroying Americaand he does it with his usual crisp insight, ferocious truth-telling, and sharp wit.

Monica Crowley, host of The Monica Crowley Podcast and former assistant secretary of the treasury

Americas headed for a showdown, and Kurt pulls no punches talking about a national divorce, Chinese domination, and even civil war Pretty good, for an Army guy.

Jesse Kelly, national radio host and Marine

Certain to be banned by Bidens Ministry of Truth, a delicious stew of facts, experience, wisdom, and incisive spit-take inducing humor. If you want to have hope for Americas return to respectability after the humiliating Biden years, this incisive and often hilarious analysis will lift your spiritunless you are a Bulwark or a Dispatch fan, of course, in which case it will make you flounce around the room with your hands on your hips and your knees held tightly together while you roll your eyes and exclaim, Why cant we all just get along?

Nick Searcy, Hollywood acting legend

Kurt Schlichter, Colonel K to American patriots, is a man who uniquely understands what happened to America in 2016. In Well Be Back, he tells you the future of the America First movement and your role in it. Read it, share it, and act now.

Sebastian Gorka, national radio host and author

Takes the reader on a provocative yet well-researched journey to the place we find ourselves today in American politics. He rightly points at our cultural curators as the root of the rot in American politics and our culture yet finds a way to be aspirational about the future.

Salena Zito, journalist and author

With the same spirited and combative style of the legendary Andrew Breitbart, Kurt takes the fight directly to the enemies of our countrys sacred values, principles, and institutions. When youre not laughing your ass off, youll be grabbing your torch and pitchfork ready to storm the castle. Piss off a commie, buy this book.

Larry OConnor, radio host and columnist

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To Lieutenant Commander Stephen L. Schlichter, United States Navy

A great father and American patriot

I n Combined Arms Staff Service School, called CAS3 (but pronounced CAS-cubed), they taught us senior captains about briefings. Briefing is what staff officers do. They brief the boss, the commander, so he can make a reasoned decision and capably execute it. We were taught that in a briefing, you tell them what you are going to tell them, then tell them, then tell them what you told them. So, let me do the part about telling you what I am going to tell you right here.

I am going to tell you about where America is now, and about how we are at a perilous crossroads. Just a couple of decades ago, we were great, untouchable, indisputably more powerful than any other nation in human history, and yet today, America is broken, exhausted, and morally bankrupt, and its citizens are at each others throats. The choices we make in the coming years will determine whether we slide further down the slippery slope into chaos, conflict, and perhaps even collapse. Alternatively, we can decide to make America great again, just like the red hat says.

Heres a spoiler, thoughI am going to tell you how no matter what we do, these last few miserable years will have changed us forever. America will be different than it was. But I am an optimistbetting against Americans is always a bad calland I think we will get through this.

I will sketch out what went wrong. Then I will sketch out how things could get much, much worse. Will we undergo a national divorce? Perhaps a civil war? Might we fall prey to a foreign threat? Sometimes I will illustrate these scenarios with little fictional vignettes, because though you can talk endlessly of theory, sometimes the most powerful way to illustrate reality is to imagine how it all might play out in practice, as my novels about America coming apart demonstrate. So if my discussion shifts briefly into the story of a soldier, or a politician, or a regular mom trying to provide for her family, you know why.

After a parade of horribles, I will offer a parade of, at least, less horrible horribles, and then I will talk about how we might come out of this nightmare. Will we re-embrace the Constitution? Will we embrace a rightist strongman? After that, we will discuss the short term, such as what might happen in 2024 and what a conservative leader must do to save the country once he is sworn in in 2025. That agenda will make a lot of liberal blue checks apoplectic, but so be it. If they are busy dealing with apoplexy, they arent trashing our country.

As Al Davis, famous sportsball person, said, Just win, baby. Were in this for survival, folks, and we need to act like it. If you are busy clutching your pearls, the bad guys will eventually get around to strangling you with the strand.

Finally, I will tell you how I think all this is likely to end up, and what we must do as individuals to see that this crazy experiment begun on these shores far from civilization by a bunch of guys in powdered wigs continues. Civilizations fall. Someday, America will fall. But it need not be today or tomorrow. I think we patriots will win this existential struggle. America will not come out of this conflict unchanged, but I believe it will come out of it as still America all the same.