Reading the article, in full, is a tutorial.
There are at least a couple of things going on, here, it seems to me.
Number One, is the aim of conservatives to conserve the principles of the founders, and all that those principles encompassed at the time, and keep them into the future. ( The Constitution)
Number Two, is to support and elect representatives, and presidents, who concur with Number One.
Can these aims and principles even move the nation today, in significant numbers to actually prevail?
As the schools have triumphed over the Church, the churches have been been systematically diminished in their sustaining influence, and increasingly marginalized in the public square.
It is to be expected when you cede the field to incremental Marxist advances made in the schools, leaving now generations of children to come out “educated”, but entirely removed from the founding principles, having been shaped to reject serious church dogma, doctrines and community as well.
Panicked finally, we conservatives are beating against a tide turned against us that will take time to redirect, but must begin with taking back our schools, in order to reinvigorate and restore the Church. After all, where do children spend their lifetime? They are relegated to the school house, and school related activities that keep them out of their home and church.
Your synopsis is on target.
As for schools, I tried from the inside, serving on a school board, was targeted by the unions (3 or 4 of them) and bounced. I concluded schools were beyond repair without massive political changes. Home schooled my youngest son.
Lots of work ahead, both for us individually and collectively.
Good thoughts and hopefully the answer to your question can still be a "Yes". I think the failure, and unsustainability, of socialism in Europe and now America will ultimately be seen and understood by the public. And hopefully very soon.
And it is clear that the political strategy must be like that of Lady Margaret Thatcher and Sir Keith Joseph (and espoused in the 'WTF book' (www.tokyorove.com) ....
... instead of wheeling and dealing with “consensus-building” in Parliament and 10 Downing Street, the way to return Britain to economic and societal health from its “sick man of Europe” status was to take the collectivist consensus and wage against it: “… a battle of ideas to be fought in every school, university, publication, committee, TV studio.”
You are most correct that we need to take back our schoolhouses (private & homeschool in the interim) to win in the long run. Viva Christo Rey!