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If The Right Wants To Win, It Must Drop Its ‘That’s Not How We Do Things’ Approach To Organizing
The Federalist ^ | April 24, 2023 | Kyle Shideler

Posted on 04/24/2023 2:35:42 PM PDT by GrootheWanderer

What if the conservative donor base took a tiny fraction of the money it spends on campaigns to win elections and spent it on building a school to teach conservatives how to organize for political power and action beyond and between elections?

This wouldn’t be a school for educating children, as vital a task as that is. Hillsdale’s initiative focusing on K-12 schools and the growing Christian classical school movement are certainly commendable for the purpose of forming young minds. But this effort would be more a boot camp for adult conservative organizers to learn the tricks of the trade for real political organizing.

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Philosophy; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: activism; bloggers; culture; organizing; politics
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Interesting idea. As I understand it, one of the roles of schools for leftist organizing is learning how to spot agents provocateur and grifters, something the right has shown it really isn't good at.
1 posted on 04/24/2023 2:35:42 PM PDT by GrootheWanderer
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To: GrootheWanderer

The problem with the whole premise is that the Right doesn’t really want to win. They are all in on it. In other words, they are winning because they are succeeding in what they are doing as part of the Uniparty.


2 posted on 04/24/2023 2:42:00 PM PDT by Codeflier (My voting days are over. Let it burn...give the people what they want good and hard.)
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To: GrootheWanderer

First they have to even care whether they win or not. And they really do not care, they are all on the same side. All they care about is skimming dollars, not if they win or not.


3 posted on 04/24/2023 2:43:16 PM PDT by Openurmind (The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world it leaves to its children. ~ D. Bonhoeffer)
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To: Codeflier

“The problem with the whole premise is that the Right doesn’t really want to win. They are all in on it. In other words, they are winning because they are succeeding in what they are doing as part of the Uniparty.”

Absolutely, You just beat me to it... Well said...


4 posted on 04/24/2023 2:44:24 PM PDT by Openurmind (The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world it leaves to its children. ~ D. Bonhoeffer)
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To: GrootheWanderer

The democrats do things to win.

The republicans keep doing the things that lose.

That’s all there is to it really.


5 posted on 04/24/2023 2:45:29 PM PDT by Samurai_Jack (This is not about hypocrisy, this is about hierarchy!)
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To: Codeflier
Do you mean the actual right, or those who merely call themselves “the right”?
Capture one or both of the political parties in the United States.

— Goal #15 of the 45 communist goals for the USA
If they call themselves “the right” but support leftism in any way, they’re leftists.
6 posted on 04/24/2023 2:46:30 PM PDT by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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To: Codeflier

I have come to embrace the whole uniparty concept.

Any text published by any organization whatsoever within 50 miles of DC, NYC or LA must be instantly ignored. That includes the RNC.

If they want to be relevant, leave the environs of the Swamp.


7 posted on 04/24/2023 2:47:09 PM PDT by Owen
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To: GrootheWanderer
You can 'organize' all you want.

It won't make a difference to conservatives having elections stolen from them as long as you have:

1. cheat-by-mail-in ballots with no signature verification.

2. no chain of custody for ballots that are trucked to a third party location to be 'counted.'

3. taking more than a week to declare a 'winner,' and during that week there are no observers 24-7 overseeing the count. A building 'closes' for the day, but then we find out later that it wasn't really 'closed' AND NOT A DAMNED THING IS DONE ABOUT IT. (Ask Laxalt)

All of the above were put into action on STEROIDS in 2020 because of the SCAMDEMIC (along with cooperation of RINO-controlled state legislatures), and that was what was 'different' about 2020.

All of the above were still in place during 2022. So instead of stealing from one man in 2020, the Uniparty cheated all MAGA candidates in 2022. Just ask Kari Lake.

8 posted on 04/24/2023 2:48:48 PM PDT by HandBasketHell
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To: Openurmind

The democrats have assembled and operate a machine that they can use to elect A N Y O N E that they choose. The reason why they’re so angry at trump is because he broke their machine. The reason why they’re angry at tucker and the J6 is because they’ve uncovered it. They’ve done the RCA on the 2020 fraud curve and they wont make the same mistake next time.

If we dont play the game they’re going to do it again.


9 posted on 04/24/2023 2:51:07 PM PDT by Samurai_Jack (This is not about hypocrisy, this is about hierarchy!)
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To: GrootheWanderer

There will never be another somewhat honest election.

In 2020 democrats demonstrated that there are no limits to the cheating they can do to steal
national elections without any significant push-back, punishment or other repercussions.

In fact, not only did many (most?) of the highest level and most powerful republicans NOT push-back and
demand action against the overt stealing of the 2020 election, most of them attacked and condemned any
republican who wouldn’t defend the “integrity” of the election and pretend the election was not stolen.


10 posted on 04/24/2023 2:58:57 PM PDT by Iron Munro ( Michael Byrd: "Well, Somebody had to do it - Babbitt wasn't gonna' shoot herself!")
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To: GrootheWanderer

How many FReepers have attended CLI Conservative oops Campaign Leadership Institute?

Their classes effectively taught how to win primaries in red districts and red states. They did this by focusing on the reddest of red areas, the hard-Rs. Then enough soft Rs to push them over the top. They totally ignored the blue areas, whether they were 40% or 5% red. They especially ignored the purple areas.

Should we hope that CLI improves its ways?


11 posted on 04/24/2023 3:00:59 PM PDT by spintreebob (ki .h )
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To: GrootheWanderer

And they need to get off their moral high horse and start using lawfare against leaders of the left.


12 posted on 04/24/2023 3:11:09 PM PDT by for-q-clinton (Cancel Culture IS fascism...Let's start calling it that!)
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To: GrootheWanderer

Yeah, because the way Democrats have been doing things for all these years has worked so well, right?


13 posted on 04/24/2023 3:12:36 PM PDT by mass55th ("Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway." ~~ John Wayne )
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To: GrootheWanderer

“Conservatives organizing” is an oxymoron.


14 posted on 04/24/2023 3:14:39 PM PDT by GingisK
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To: GrootheWanderer

It also needs to stop being Me Too Republicans and actually dare to stand apart from Democrats in what they do, and not just what they say every other year.


15 posted on 04/24/2023 3:16:14 PM PDT by Rurudyne (Standup Philosopher)
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To: Codeflier

The Right wants to win.

The RINOs don’t.

We have the entire Left against us, and the second wave
RINOs backing them up.

Carl Rove is their god.

May he choke on his own vomit and sit this one out.


16 posted on 04/24/2023 3:37:57 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (I pledge allegiance to the flag of the USofA & to the Constitutional REPUBLIC for which it stands.)
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To: Samurai_Jack

I absolutely agree.

“The reason why they’re so angry at trump is because he broke their machine.”

I have a theory that whoever was tasked with flipping the switch that night accidentally flipped it the wrong way.


17 posted on 04/24/2023 3:48:36 PM PDT by Openurmind (The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world it leaves to its children. ~ D. Bonhoeffer)
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To: DoughtyOne

he could choke on someone elses vomit as well for all I care


18 posted on 04/24/2023 3:49:08 PM PDT by Jeff Vader ( )
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To: GrootheWanderer

It is called total war, folks. Get used to that term.


19 posted on 04/24/2023 3:51:38 PM PDT by joma89 (Buy weapons and ammo, folks, and have the will to use them.)
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To: GrootheWanderer

The right is impressed with “indignation.”
The left burns the building down.


20 posted on 04/24/2023 3:52:20 PM PDT by Paraclete
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