Conservatives should focus more on building “alternative political structures” than the next election cycle, speakers said Wednesday at the National Conservatism Conference in Washington.
Celebrated author, educator, and former slave Booker T. Washington offers three key lessons for building these alternative institutions, noted Delano Squires, a research fellow in the Richard and Helen DeVos Center for Life, Religion, and Family at The Heritage Foundation.
“Construction and collaboration must be built on what we believe, not who we oppose,” Squires told conferees at the Capital Hilton.
The second lesson, Squires said, is that “building is better than bellyaching.”
And the third lesson is “institutions must be built to weather the storm.” In part, he said, that means the focus must be “the next generation, not the next election…
