Kevin Ennett – Colorado Coordinator
Kevin Ennett, the Colorado Coordinator for Tactical Civics, says part of his motivation for embracing Tactical Civics was his conclusion the 2020 election “…was an overthrow of the US Government.”
David Zuniga, a founder of Tactical Civics, describes the 2020 presidential election as “The most brazen crime since 9/11. But everybody knows that the election of 2020 and our entire republic was highjacked by enemies of the Constitution, and don’t think for one second that We the People will sit by as communists and organized crime transmogrify America into a cheap imitation of Europe. …The Bible tells us to resist evil, and it will flee from you. It instructs us to glorify God and to do works of repentance…”
To understand the mindset of TC enthusiasts, you must first know that it is a Christian Nationalistic endeavor that believes the Bible is inviolable and infallible. Therefore, it naturally follows that since God ordained the Constitution (if not actually writing it), it, too, is sacrosanct and infallible. Indeed, in David Zuniga’s words, “Bring America back under King Jesus. We are God’s solution.”
Therefore, the Bible and the Constitution become interwoven, created by the same hand, nearly indistinguishable. TC promoters glide effortlessly from the Bible to the Constitution and back again. Like all good preachers, they marvel with Chapter and Verse, Article, and Clause.
TC organizers preach that only those who perceive a calling to their teachings are the ones who will respond with action. Those who respond are the “Remnant,” or that portion of the evil world who remain righteously within the Christian God’s grace. And those who remain so are We, the People. Indeed, those who believe in Jesus Christ as their Lord and Savior can take comfort in the fact that they are the “Remnant.” TC says it will accept non-believers in their ranks but not Muslims. However, non-believers may not question the believer’s faith.
Kevin Ennett, the Colorado Coordinator for Tactical Civics, lives in northeast Park County. He recently discussed his passion for the organization and its tenets with Delmer Eldred, who runs an audio podcast out of Klickitat County, Washington, on the Oregon border about 100 miles northeast of Portland. Eldred’s podcast is called The Klickitat Voice.
You may remember Kevin Ennett from his participation in a Park County Republican Central Committee candidate forum in June. In fact, when the Park County Republican Central Committee’s Facebook page popped up with an invite to a “lively meeting” at the American Legion Post 172 to meet local and state Republican candidates and learn about civic duty, I took notice. What caught my eye was the prominence of the Tactical Civics logo in the graphic, which included the promise the meeting would provide a “Tactical Civics™ perspective.”
Ennett even touted on a TC Group page that he would be the “headliner speaker” at the soiree.
Getting back to Delmer Eldred, an interesting character indeed. He envisions a second civil war in America funded with Bill Gates’s money, with Antifa and other crazies firing the first shots, all to the benefit of global elites. He posits that “Inhaling Graphene [a material extracted from graphite] particles can make your body a sensor device that you can be logged into by a computer and monitor your every move, body temperature, heart rate, pulse oxygenation, respiration rate, blood pressure, and blood glucose. It also can provide a compatible signal for G5, making your body a G5 antenna.”
Eldred’s conversation with Ennett, published on July 29, 2024, provides some interesting insights. When he asked Ennett why he joined Tactical Civics, Ennett said, “In 2020, whenever that election season went down, it was pretty clear from the inside that it was an overthrow of the US government.”
When Ennett says “from the inside,” he’s likely referring to his honorable Marine Corps service of 22 years, ending his career as a Signals Intelligence/Electronic Warfare Chief Warrant Officer 3 in 2022 at Fort Bragg, NC. Ennett is a self-professed, born-again Christian from North Carolina. He is married, and the couple has three sons. They live in Pine, Park County, Colorado.
In 2019, Ennett took to the Marine Corps’s official social media page to respond to those who objected to Donald Trump’s desire to have tanks roll down Pennsylvania Avenue in a Washington, DC, July 4th parade.
He posted: “Here’s to any complaints about tanks and a [middle finger] to anyone who says anything about PTSD!” he wrote. “Happy 4th. Blow your fingers off, get black out drunk, engage in risky behavior that offends snowflakes. If you die, then you didn’t deserve to live! If you wine, hurry and become a ’22’ statistic today!”
Ennett was directing his remarks to his fellow Marines. It appears he was telling them to man up and stop relying on PTSD as an excuse for bad behavior. Engage in aggressive, anti-social behavior; if you die doing it, you deserve to die. If you whine about tanks and PTSD, hurry up and commit suicide. (The “…hurry and become a ‘22’ statistic today” refers to the inexact statistic that 22 veterans commit suicide daily.)
Ennett apologized for the post, calling it an attempt at satire for a small niche of people. He apologized for how the post was perceived, but more critically, how it could affect him and his family: “I work hard to be where I’m at,” Ennett wrote. “As I saw the nasty responses, on a day [I] was supposed to be spending with my family, I think about how ashamed of me they would be of my comments. And then I thought about how quickly everything I worked for could evaporate. If I would’ve known that people who have perceived my post that way, I wouldn’t have put it up.”
Fast forward to Ennett’s conversation on July 29, 2024, with Delmer Eldred, who asked Ennett why he joined Tactical Civics. Mentioning the 2020 election was an “overthrow of the US Government,” he continued with, “We kind of viewed it [the “overthrow”] thinking that something would be done. …So we’ll see what the General Services Administration does with their decisions.”
Ennett’s “we” is presumably his Marine buddies who shared his conclusion that the 2020 election overthrew the US Government. (I have no idea what the GSA would have to do with any investigation of the 2020 election.) Ennett implies that his “we” raised questions about the 2020 election—“…we were the ones that were questioning the election and the operations of government up to that point…”—and apparently, his Marine superiors instead identified their questions and concerns as “extremism within the ranks” and “mindset” training was recommended.
Ennett says his last operation with his unit was intelligence support for the US evacuation of Afghanistan. Ennett describes the evacuation as “sickening” and the product of policies that were “flipped whenever the new guy came into office.” Referring to Biden, Ennett says, “We call him Resident Joe Bidang because he’s definitely a Chinese implant.”
Ennett says that after that, he “…took off on a leisurely trip out to Colorado to plan for retirement because I saw the writing on the wall. …somewhere between Kentucky and Illinois, I came across a truck that was wrapped for Tactical Civics. And then once I found out that that was the only truck, they call it the Rolling Revere, the only truck in existence that had that wrap on it… About five years of Holy Spirit-led reading lists and study and positions all seem to come into line, and I kind of understood what I needed to do in my post-retirement life, and after that, we were. I retired, moved to Colorado, and here I am.”
Okay. To summarize, then, after five years of “Holy Spirit-led reading lists and study” and some apparent dissatisfaction with the Marine Corps’s response to his characterization of his claim the 2020 election was an overthrow of the US Government, discovering the Rolling Revere wrapped in a Tactical Civics decal somewhere between Kentucky and Illinois, all this combined provided the inevitable roadmap to Ennet’s next mission. Indeed, he is a Remnant called by God to do God’s work. And what better way to do that than to join Tactical Civics and preach founder David Zuniga’s Gospel of Tactical Civics in Colorful Colorado?
When Eldred asks Ennett if people are looking for a solution to take America back, Ennett says, “Oh boy. Boy, howdy, is what our founder [Zuniga] would say. You know, which is definitely getting the attention of many, that’s for sure. … In Tactical Civics we consider that repentance is an action word. And we have a tangible solution or is like… I like to say in military terms, is an end-state driven mission that takes hard work and dedication to achieve from everyone. And life in America has kind of become so comfortable that we… We’re in the environment where you can skip on your New Year’s resolution with little to no immediate consequences. And we definitely want an American that’s cut from a different cloth, but not the ones that are happy, so long as there’s air conditioning and cell signal. We want God’s remnant. [Again, the remnant is that portion of the evil world who remain righteously within the Christian God’s grace.] We just got to figure out the message to get to him. And then that second thing, that’s the unfortunate trend is… To understand that the system of government built by the founders in the 18th century is the singular aspect holding the evil of this entire planet at bay. To think that evil didn’t anticipate that repentance would be happening at this time, and their plan is just absolute folly. …Wake up. That’s why we believe that the remnant must be Holy Spirit-led.”
Ennett, of course, echoes David Zuniga’s perception of America. Zuniga, appearing on far-right podcaster John B. Well’s program, said, “Most Americans will remain free riders. They’re going to be slackers. They’re always going to be slackers. …Somebody who’s just willfully stupid and stays that way. What do you do? Well, you don’t do anything. You walk away from those. I mean that. That’s human nature always and everywhere. And, we, the people, only refer, like I said earlier, to those Americans who choose to perform the duties that we confer on ourselves in our highest law [King Jesus]. So it, we call it a remnant. … With Tactical Civics, we don’t want everybody. We want the remnant who God is sending. If God is sending that remnant back, those are the people we want.” Zuniga emphasizes that Tactical Civis is “…a consciously Christian organization founded to glorify Jesus Christ and to locate, train, support, and organize the American Remnant to do what our Founding Fathers expected us to do.”
Finally, someone defines who We, the People, are. If you missed it, here’s what Zuniga said: “And, We, the people, only refers, like I said earlier, to those Americans who choose to perform the duties that we confer on ourselves in our highest law. So it—we call it a remnant. … With Tactical Civics, we don’t want everybody. We want the remnant who God is sending. If God is sending that remnant back, those are the people we want.” Ennett echoes Zuniga, “We want God’s remnant. We just got to figure out the message to get to him.”
What then happens to those who do not fit into Zuniga’s or Ennett’s definition of who We, the People, are? If Zuniga and Ennett accomplish their end-state-driven mission, what then? What happens to democracy? What happens to the Constitution? “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof..” Would it seem inconsistent if Zuniga and Ennett chose not to celebrate the moment with religious zeal, glorifying Jesus Christ as being reestablished in America by hook or crook, mandate, or law?
Eldred continues the interview with what may be a prepared question: “…What have you found in America’s schooling that has welcomed the environment of chaos that we see in this Republic?”
Ennett answers: “There’s definitely a complex answer, and I’ll do my best to kind of summarize here. But yeah… I look at most everything in terms of warfare. And when an attacker looks to find the feature that enables his enemy success, that means that he’s after his center of gravity. And in turn, he focuses the attention on the critical vulnerability. To that feature, not necessarily directly at that feature. And for that, for America, that center of gravity is the Bible, is God’s word. So the ability to read was the target. And then we codified it in 1647, there was a thing passed in Massachusetts or enacted in Massachusetts called the old Deluder Satan Act. It identified that reading was the most critical element to encourage community or public schooling making that the imperative. Specifically, to ensure that everyone every person could read their Bible, it expressly stated that when we do not read our Bible, Satan has the power to dilute. Go figure.”
Ennett then provides a very long recitation, which he may be reading, explaining his perception that public education in America became an effort to undermine the Old Deluder Satan Act of 1647.
The Old Deluder Satan Act of 1647 was a Puritan edict whereby every town with 50 or more families must hire and maintain a teacher to instruct all children in reading and writing. Towns with 100 or more families were required to open a grammar school to prepare children to attend Harvard College. The religious basis of the act was to thwart “ye old deluder Satan” in his goal to keepe men from the knowledge of ye Scriptures.”
The act is generally acknowledged as the beginning of the public school system in America.
Ennett tells us he looks at “…most everything in terms of warfare.” He talks about centers of gravity and critical vulnerabilities, concepts that originated with a 19th-century Prussian general and military theorist, Carl von Clausewitz. Ennett applies them to his perception of the history of American public education, which I can only describe as bizarre: a revisionist history that, among other things, suggests the foundation of the Prussian system of public education (the concept generally emulated by other countries, including the United States) was not laid out by Frederick the Great, but was instituted in Prussia when the “King of Prussia caught wind,” of Robert Owens’s utopian socialist experiment in Indiana in 1824.
I know—esoteric stuff, right? But Ennett’s revision of history relating to public schools in America specifically presumes efforts to address public illiteracy in America were necessarily designed to attack America’s “center of gravity,” the Bible, God’s Word. Thus, God was removed from the American experience, causing illiteracy in present-day America to the point where this country’s literacy is barely above “remote African villages.”
I may or may not provide more about Ennett’s sitdown with Delmer Eldred in a future post related to his public education treatise. I hope this post reveals more insight into Tactical Civics, focusing on the close-to-home Colorado Coordinator, Kevin Ennett. Indeed, he’s sincere in his beliefs, and so am I. He sees Tactical Civics as a path to Make America Great Again. I see it as a dangerous dive into a mindset that sets aside democracy for a Christian Nationalistic/Dominionistic march toward theocratic totalitarianism where We, the People, are not defined by the Constitution, but, as Zuniga says, “We, the people, only refer… to those Americans who choose to perform the duties that we confer on ourselves in our highest law [King Jesus].”
If you want to read more about Tactical Civics, here’s the link: Park County Republican Leadership Embraces Tactical Civics.
