RE-EDUCATION #3: Why the Right Can't Win by Copying the Left's Tactics
"But the left does it" doesn't cut it.
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Why the Right Can't Win by Copying the Left's Tactics
Last week, Kyle Rittenhouse announced he'd write in Ron Paul for President instead of voting for Donald Trump. Immediately, right-leaning influencers formed an outrage mob, demanding he bow to the pressure and swear allegiance to Trump.
A few weeks earlier, Libs of TikTok led a campaign targeting ordinary people who celebrated the attempted assassination of Donald Trump. Let’s be clear: celebrating such a horrid act is despicable. But harassing people at their jobs, filming them, and mobilizing millions to get them fired from minimum-wage positions is equally vile.
The "woke right" is real, engaging in cancel culture against those they disagree with, just like the left. These are just two examples, but I could offer countless others where the political right has adopted the same tactics as the left, mistakenly believing that mimicking these tactics will win them the culture war.
The biggest flaw in this thinking is the assumption that the left and the right are on a level playing field with equal status and resources.
This is false.
The left has a 100-year head start, controls all major institutions in the country, boasts a more engaged and strategic audience, and is highly organized and proactive in achieving its vision.
In contrast, the right is reactionary, disorganized, lacking a cohesive vision, and has only one activist making real-world progress (Scott Presler). The right spends more time fighting amongst themselves than opposing the left. This is like a little league baseball team thinking they can compete with the Red Sox or the Yankees. It's absurd to think the little league team stands a chance.
The right is the underdog. And when you're the underdog, you can't just adopt the big dog's tactics and expect to win—because the big dog is better at the game you’re playing and will crush you without breaking a sweat.
But underdogs can win... just not by playing on the enemy’s field and by their rules. History is full of Davids defeating Goliaths. But if David faced Goliath head-on, expecting to win in a battle of strength, he'd walk away disappointed—if he even walked away at all.
As an underdog, you must engage in a battle of wits, outsmarting your opponent by getting several steps ahead and anticipating their moves better than they do.
How do you do that?
You study your enemy. You learn how they think. You anticipate their next moves.
Always be proactive, never reactive. Reacting gives them control over your behavior. Get ahead of them, and you'll knock them off balance.
This is why following this series and understanding the left from a realistic perspective is crucial. The first job of the underdog is to know the enemy they're fighting against better than they know themselves. Only then can they outsmart them.
If the political right doesn't start acting more intelligently, the left will win, and your children and grandchildren will grow up in a world of their making.
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"underdogs can win... just not by playing on the enemy’s field and by their rules."
I think there is a view on the Right that activism itself, and organized public movements, are the domain of the Left, which is why the Right doesn't produce them. To avoid the Left's playing field, I think we have to look at the other ways that policy gets made, apart from large scale popular uprising and infiltration of institutions. I think we have to appeal to sound-minded patrons like Elon Musk and their 'running group' of like-minded politically active people who have large means and connections within government to shape policy and remove compromised actors from institutions through uncovering scandal and using concrete performance or competency metrics the leftist infiltrators don't satisfy.