Fever in the Bunkhouse Now, December 10th, 2025.

Introduction.

I will begin by noting that today's installment is going to be more autobiographical than normal

and will consequently be a bit more personal.

There's a reason for this, as I hope will become obvious by the conclusion.

It is not that I was looking for a chance to write about myself more,

but rather because I believe I need to sketch a map of the general chaos

for those who follow our ministries here in Moscow,

and to put an X on it that says, you are here.

There's currently a great deal of churn in the conservative movement, and my purpose here is to describe what is going on and more importantly why it is

going on. Old alliances have fractured and flown apart and a lot of people, true believers,

trolls, grifters, ideologues, influencers, bots and normies are scrambling trying to find their

footing. We are smack in the middle of a fourth turning, and the turmoil of it all has affected the entire West.

Over the last five years, virtually every major institution has disgraced itself.

What used to be a high trust society has been blown to smithereens, nobody knows what to think anymore.

And even when an individual person's convictions

haven't changed, despite the societal turmoil, it is very difficult to know who to think those

convictions with. This implosion of all the trusted institutions and relationships has, of course,

included those of us on the political right. But because human beings are created in such a way

that trust

is no more optional than oxygen is, this lack of trust only seems like a universal lack of trust.

People don't believe CNN anymore, or the CDC, or the Pentagon, or the Israeli government,

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