The enemy LOST them through their own incompetence or because they deliberately took a dive. Look at the trials of Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols. Or David Irving. Napoleon said that revolution is an idea that has found bayonets. I will go further.
Ideas win ONLY when they find bayonets.
Christianity was a minor sect until the Emperor Constantine found it politically convenient to establish a single state religion in the Roman Empire and the Christians won the draw. We need to be hunting about for bayonets to so that we will end up sitting on the benches and wearing the black robes instead of them. We are being victimized, insulted, pillaged, tortured, and murdered, and up until now we have responded by pecking on keyboards and once in a long, long while standing on a street corner holding up a sign. If we do not cease responding to events in this manner, and start responding as actual MEN respond to threats to their lives and their families and their liberty, then we will eventually perish in some squalid way or another and the world will hear no more of us. That is the way of nature.