Political Activism

 

Chris Rufo is very, very smart, and very wise, and is a rising star in the conservative movement.

 

He gave an acceptance speech on 9/22/23 at the Manhattan Institute, after receiving their City Journal Award. His speech was about what he had learned about political activism.

 

I am just quickly paraphrasing his 17-minute speech. First, it is not enough to offer conservative political commentary: one must offer concrete, new information in a structured presentation with facts, cases, data, studies, and power points—in order to be credible, and one must write many stories to show a pattern, and then people begin to see that your narrative describes what is going on.

 

Second, it is not enough to be an armchair, think-tank political theorist. One must demean oneself, get down and dirty, grubby, worldly and engaged in political activism with politicians. Dennis Prager admonishes us that we must fight the good fight.

 

I have advocated the same approach. I have always been politically active, in the gun rights movement for the last 10 or 15 years. The anarchist individuator supercitizen has a duty to run society form the bottom up, uniting with millions of other supercitizens to run society, and keep politicians, and government as efficient, non-tyrannical, small, strong and moral as possible at all levels of governing. This is a moral duty for every citizen, period.

 

Three, Rufo wants activists to turn activism into public policy. Amen, I say. We need a capitalist America, a constitutional republic, populated by an engaged, dominant but tolerant majority of anarchist, armed, citizen militia individuators supercitizens, numbering in the millions—that is my public policy.

 

I am constantly amazed at how smart, and wise, Rufo, and how he puts his concepts and narrative into simple, clear, intelligible language. This young man is a treasure for the conservative movement.