Though I’m unsure I should credit them to Mao, for as useful idiots they are really the (dagger in the hands of the) cold dead hands of the Stalinist USSR stabbing at our collective hearts (as opposed to grasping at our collective throats: the normal construction of the phrase) to drag us all into the now emptied insane asylums … if only they can.
The Stalinist model failed, it wasn’t pure enough for Mao and his model outlived it. The true believers now look to the long march as their inspiration.
Looked at a few articles and it’s not clear if Hiltz was born a male, or is just declaring they are transgender non-binary. I’m guessing they were born a female, cause this would be a much larger story.
I want them to keep charging forward. It’s Custer just before he divided his Regiment and charged down into the Little Big Horn Valley, It’s Cardigan about to lead the Light Brigade into the Valley of Death against the Russian Cannons. Let them go out in a glorious and futile last stand.
His first 4 years were OJT against a dedicated OPFOR. He knows he only has 4 short years to get things back on course. And he knows a lot more about that game and he isn’t taking prisoners.