The Regressives are working diligently to move this country back to a monarchy, ruled by a privileged imbecile whose brain is syphilitic Swiss cheese.

Why? Is it a long game strategy, or a stupidly short-sighted gambit to retain power as their world collapses?

You never change things by fighting the existing reality.
To change something, build a new model that makes the old model obsolete.
R. Buckminster Fuller