It was your idea to go Gandhi. Besides, conservatives don't need saving from themselves we're looking for a solution to the commie problem.
We are Americans and conservatives so we should save ourselves on our own without the father figure or prophet to deliver us.
George Washington and Ronald Reagan, to mention two, fit that bill for Americans pretty well.
But we do have to find ways to communicate and act in concert.
That's what leaders are good for.
First, you might want to make a distinction between using tactics of a person and needing that person.
Secondly, I reject this notion that conservatives need a Moses like figure to save us. I am a conservative. I believe in freedom and personal responsibility, not this liberal notion that we need a prophet in Washington DC to do our thinking for us.
I reject the Commie solution to the Commie problem as a matter of principle.
Thirdly, see secondly.