From Booklist
You’d think the last testament of a founding father of the Religious Right would be a grand strategy for church conquest of the state. But the late Weyrich and Lind, his longtime associate in the Free Congress Foundation, say conservatives should give less time to electoral politicking and more to other ways of reviving republican government, combatting “cultural Marxism” (ideologies hostile to traditional social institutions and mores, such as those of the panoply of “liberation” movements), and restoring national, economic, and moral security. If that doesn’t sound much different from old conservatives’ stated aims, the means Weyrich and Lind propose include many things current conservatives are supposed to despise, including racial integration, well-paying jobs, election reform favoring new candidates and parties, organic farming and gardening, anti-imperialism, a smaller military, and relying on the exemplary power of living and behaving well—and not on political power—to achieve religious goals. The only slogan they advance is “Think locally, act locally,” though they sometimes bring to mind “Small is beautiful.” Principle may be returning to American conservatism. --Ray Olson
