The real tragedy is that confidence in US institutions has been completely undermined for a large segment of the population, and with the guaranteed mismanagement of a Democrat controlled everything the rest of the population is soon to follow
One of the benefits of the death of free speech on the internet is that people are now forced to rebuild the more robust and rewarding networks in real life. There is no substitution for regularly meeting in person and in many ways the internet has limited our ability to effectively organize. Monthly meetings can be a lot of fun and get us out of the social media zombie like state. Plus it attracts new members who want to feel like they are actually part of something rather than just throwing more clicks down the click hole
I spent much of my working life putting together, running and documenting
meetings. It is a significant part of engineering teams and project engineering.
There are still "Meeting robbers" to contend with. They are like internet "Trolls".
It is also hard to gain trust so people will open up and tell you what they think,
not what they think you want to hear, and protect them, if that ends up being an
unpopular view, in a face to face environment.
Meetings are a lot of work if they are to be effective.
They are good for Team building most the time.
But I've been in some where people nearly came to blows.
Personally I think a mix of the two is optimal.
every once in a while you all need to get together
and talk face to face, eat together, talk story,
just prove you are all human. However much information
research and exchange can be done remotely.
Just my $0.02.