What the cause needed, Buchanan told the men he brought together, was to “create, support, and activate an effective counterintelligentsia” to begin to transform “the way people think about government.” A kind of bottleneck existed in which liberal intellectuals influenced the media, which in turn influenced the “elected political leaders,” thwarting the men’s shared cause. The center-left all but owned the university, and its “intellectual establishment” effectively indoctrinated political actors in both parties. Because of this, any attempt at fundamental change would be “frustrated and
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