A retrograde calculates, night and day, how to return the world to:

•  the Old Order of moral and sexual decency,

• classical masculinity,

• national sovereignty and national borders,

• faith and hope and charity,

• goodness and beauty and truth,

• Christian civic liberty, 

• and most importantly, the social kingship of Christ. 

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In the words of Shakespeare, a retrograde is one of God’s spies.
 
The retrograde has the unique capacity for understanding the stark chasm between the degenerate, socialist-infiltrated world of decay on one side and the well-meaning, good-hearted, but clueless Christian world on the other. 
 
In a time of such profound decay, being one of God’s spies is a last resort and a pure necessity: it involves not “deep cover,”—i.e., acting like the enemy—but rather “half cover”: acting as a “contra” in the secular arena, a crypto-Christian counterinsurgent willing to fight like a Navy Seal and to think like a counterintel officer. 
 
Retrogrades . . . to the streets: our aim is to reverse the deliberate, deuced machinations of “radicals” like Saul Alinsky who, by penning the rulebook of radicalism, threw down a challenge that has, until now, gone unanswered. Rules for Retrogrades is the handbook men of good will need to win the culture war!