'Crush liberal dominance': Conservative megadonor urges leaner, meaner posture for activist groups

Billionaire conservative philanthropist Leonard Leo, who operates a vast network of conservative nonprofits, called on them to start "weaponizing" their ideas like the left does.

"[W]e need to do more with less, focusing on leveraging the conservative movement's talent to have impact, if we want to be successful."

"The Left built powerful networks of activists, academics, journalists, and philanthropists, along with professionals from other disciplines, who could collaborate to influence public attitudes and generate political pressure on public officials," Leo said. "They invested in talent pipelines to populate the power centers inside government, where policy would be implemented. They incubated litigation as a means of leveraging the law to produce change. And, beyond politics and law, left-wing philanthropy built or took over enormous infrastructure to control various cultural chokepoints."

"In contrast," Leo continued, "vastly insufficient funds are going toward operationalizing and weaponizing [conservative] ideas and policies to crush liberal dominance."