Don’t be sad or optimistic. Do something. The first and by far biggest problem is to fix the flawed approach that underlies mainstream conservatism. If you want to know what it is, you need to look no further than the name. The rightwing has allowed themselves to be pigeonholed into a nowin position as a stone simply slowing down the Left’s inevitable march rather than a fully fledged ideology for the future in its own right. The Left either wins faster or it wins slower. Conservatives need to be more than conservatives. They need to offer something more tangible than ‘not doing what the Left does’. We can take some pointers on how to begin to go about this with the more youthful alt right groups that have arisen on the internet if we can keep the ‘mainstream’ from working with the Left to destroy them.
The fundamental problem is that the conservatives are weak, don’t make demands, and don’t hold their elected representatives accountable. The Left may be evil, but it is smart, strong and determined to get what it wants.
Until we conservatives toughen up there’s little hope for us to overcome the tyranny of the Left. In life, those with the strongest desire to win usually do.