Yes, Conservatives failed to either fight, or fight effectively, to keep places like Harvard. As things stand now though, what do you think will happen if a Conservative PhD holder walks into a job interview for a professorship wearing a MAGA hat?
At some point in the future, efforts to retake them should be made. If someone finds themselves in a unique circumstance to do something there, by all means they should take advantage of the opportunity. But in the meantime, building alternative institutions is not only more viable, it has already proven successful.
Liberty University was founded in 1971, and has 79,000 students. 110,000 when you count online.
Do you understand the sheer scale of that? That in fifty years, a newly-founded private school became larger than any public university in the United States of America. It has more students than entire state-wide university systems in every state except for New York and North Carolina.
That is an effective way of making progress in the culture war. Create new universities that aren't over-run by absolute drivel, build them up, choke out the shoddy indoctrination mills the left runs.
Then, down the road, when the left's grip on academia has weakened, try to take back the institutions they currently have absolute control over.
It doesnt matter how many students liberty has, because liberty is
*conservative*.
The people going to the conservative universities want to participate in the power structure, not fundamentally replace it. Has any radical critique come from these universities? Any new alternatives? Any theory of power? No. Conservatives cannot, by their nature defeat the system. In the end these places will be converged, either by choice as new generations come in that want to participate in the power structure of the social justice police state, or by force as the institutions put the screws to them.
That is not to say they arent valuable..they are. They represent a potential for a safe base in which a new Fabian right can emerge. But as they stand, they arent useful.
The classic model of insurgency is as follows
Phase 1: Recruitment, propaganda, infiltration and structure building
Phase 2: Establishment of safe bases, raids and attacks, sabotage and the establishment of parallel institutions
Phase 3: Active operations against enemies strongholds
This model can be adapted and applied to all levels of conflict, and that includes cultural and political. This is the model the left has used for over the last several decades, and they are nearing completion of phase 3, with institutional capture and mass immigration being used to sieze the last strongholds.
We can use this model as well. The conservative universities can be used as a less hostile ground in which to establish structures for the future, leading to institutional capture of those universities by a new fabian right. In this ground we can develop new theories of politics and a model of resistance from which we can go forward.
Make no mistake, they ARE coming for the conservative univerisities, but we can make these places a hostile occupied ground as opposed to willing collaborators, and from them can spring a future intellectual cadre. But before any of this can happen, they have to open up to a more radical position.
