…Obviously, the right needs to completely change its approach to politics. “Don’t tread on me” is not enough. As the writer and BlazeTV host Auron MacIntyre has correctly observed: “The side that wants to win will always beat the side that just wants to be left alone.” We need a right that wants to take control of institutions to advance its programs; in other words, that has the will to impose its agenda on the left. School choice, for example, is not enough. We need to take control of school boards and dictate curricula.
We need, in short, to relearn to think politically. As Christopher Rufo, author of America’s Cultural Revolution, recently explained regarding the all-important issue of schooling: “We should repoliticize the universities and understand that education is at heart a political question.” We should broaden his analysis. Almost all issues are, either at heart or because of the left, political questions. And all the major institutions are already politicized. We need a right that will play by the same rules as the left and use political power to reward and honor allies and to defund and humiliate enemies—without, however, violating the law as it does….
The problem, of course, is that all the pressure today comes from the left and the establishment. Any semi-capable Republican elected official who tries to govern in the way I suggest will inevitably have the media hammer his character, the bureaucracy try to subvert his agenda, and left-wing activist groups challenge his policies in the courts. This has been true for decades, and, yet, the right has still not figured out how to neutralize the media, the bureaucracy, and left-wing lawfare. Breaking this logjam would not solve all our problems, but it would be one of the prerequisites to reversing the direction of our politics.
It is also imperative that the right invest considerable resources in trying to remasculinize men—young boys in particular. Red states should create all-boys schools, revamp their curriculum to emphasize the manly pursuit of excellence (more Plutarch, less Maya Angelou), promote physical fitness, get all junk food out of cafeterias, teach manual skills, and cultivate spiritedness by requiring boys to participate in martial arts and combat sports (team sports are overrated). This too is not a panacea, but I can think of no other issue that would have greater positive spillover effects since all the things that must be done to save our country require manly courage (as well as prudence and cunning).
We should also remember that the regime is nowhere near as strong as it appears. Many members of the ruling class are weak, dumb, and incompetent, and they grow more incompetent with each passing year as they double down on diversity at the expense of meritocracy. Their main propaganda arm, the media, is more despised today than probably ever in the past. The overreaction to COVID and the medical establishment’s uncritical embrace of transgenderism have done irreparable harm to the reputation of expertise.
R&I – TP
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