The defiance he demonstrated against the federal government in the Ten Commandments monument attack was exactly the kind of defiance that is needed now from high places. He was a few years too early, and the public consciousness had not yet coalesced around the idea of a tyrannical federal government. I think the same
or similar struggle now might have a similar result, but perhaps different consequences.
I hope he wins, and I hope he has not been cowed by that experience.