Feder's Rules For A Conservative Resurgence – Part III
GrassTopsUSA Exclusive Commentary
By Don Feder
02/07/2013
Conservatives need a new playbook. Our principles are sound (time-tested, some would say, because they’re eternal), but unless we want to keep getting our brains beaten out in the political arena, we need better strategies – guidelines for winning in the new century.
Our enemies may not understand the way the world works, but they are fiends when it comes to political organizing. I witnessed this first-hand with the student protest movement of the ‘60s, and saw it morph in the ‘70s, when the New Left took over the Democratic Party.
The past election was a debacle, due in part to the dud at the top of the Republican ticket and in part to the fact that we woefully underestimated the opposition. It bounced back spectacularly from its losses in 2000, 2004 and 2010. The left is now more entrenched, better funded and more determined than ever before.
The hour is late and the stakes could not be higher. We are on the verge of losing America forever. We need to honestly confront our past mistakes and move into the next election cycle fired by determination but free of illusions.
Here is Feder’s Rules for a Conservative Resurgence, Part III. (Links to Parts I and II follow.) It’s based on half a century of political activism and commentary.
GrassTopsUSA Exclusive Commentary
By Don Feder
02/07/2013
Conservatives need a new playbook. Our principles are sound (time-tested, some would say, because they’re eternal), but unless we want to keep getting our brains beaten out in the political arena, we need better strategies – guidelines for winning in the new century.
Our enemies may not understand the way the world works, but they are fiends when it comes to political organizing. I witnessed this first-hand with the student protest movement of the ‘60s, and saw it morph in the ‘70s, when the New Left took over the Democratic Party.
The past election was a debacle, due in part to the dud at the top of the Republican ticket and in part to the fact that we woefully underestimated the opposition. It bounced back spectacularly from its losses in 2000, 2004 and 2010. The left is now more entrenched, better funded and more determined than ever before.
The hour is late and the stakes could not be higher. We are on the verge of losing America forever. We need to honestly confront our past mistakes and move into the next election cycle fired by determination but free of illusions.
Here is Feder’s Rules for a Conservative Resurgence, Part III. (Links to Parts I and II follow.) It’s based on half a century of political activism and commentary.
