I’m not despairing but my faith is in God not men, even Republicans. It may be that God intends to make things so bad that there is no hope but to call on Him. Hope lies with God, the solution may not be a political one.
I know that, but consider for instance, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn.
Man wrote books while in the Gulag. And managed to get his writings out, and became a very big spark in WWIII