The biggest problem the right leaning donor class faces, whether they realize it or not, is that many leaders on Right they now support are either apolitical at their core or quite prepared to lose & die, along w/the rest of what remains of traditional Western thought & practice.
They are giving to people & institutions who are not only proven losers but who also—often by their own admission—have no effing clue what is going on now politically or culturally yet are doubling down on same failed crap & ignoring what they could learn from Trump’s success.
Many donors are in same boat—trying to figure it all out—but they’re more practical & flexible & want to win more than the ineffective right leaning personages & institutions they fund, who are mostly hindering rather than helping us understand what is happening or move forward.
Never mind lead—it’s laughable to think most of the people and institutions they fund could even attempt to do THAT, any more than they could come up with original ideas or actually rethink strategy in the age of Trump. Guys, these clowns don’t even know the landscape anymore!
But the problem is it’s hard to create something new—and to go in a different direction with new ideas and people takes trust. But at this point you have to see the ineffectiveness of the old crowd and institutions on the right and start taking chances on others.
Under 45 crowd is pissed off & full of ideas & energy. And they don’t believe any of what the older people who run the institutions you fund say. They laugh at it & they know the scene better. Treat this like a stagnating business. Shake things up. Put younger people in charge.
Triangulate opinion. Ask outside the usual circles for real unvarnished opinion, especially of younger people. Start new pilot projects. But for God’s sake stop giving mindlessly to the same old places. We call that “dumb money” privately & laugh coldly about the prob to say sane
But truth is many in donor class are better than those they are giving to in terms of savvy & instinct. It’s sad to see them get bamboozled by hacks who actively cause the very problems they purport to be solving. Folks who quietly thwart Trump while claiming otherwise. Etc.
