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Tom Basile — the host of America Right Now on Newsmax — sounded an alarm many conservatives should have been sounding for years: the fight against socialism will be lost if we keep treating presidential personality as our only strategy. Basile urged Republicans to expand their vision beyond one man and to marshal voters at the local level where school boards, city councils, and county races decide the culture and direction of our communities. His message on the network is a much-needed reminder that conservative victories are built from the ground up, not just on late-night rallies.
We cannot pretend the threat is abstract. Left-wing ideology has seeped into curricula, budgets, and local bureaucracies, and it metastasizes when patriots stay home in off-year elections. Conservatives who obsess only over national horse races while ignoring zoning boards, prosecutors, and school boards are telling their grandchildren they preferred headlines to custody of their towns. If Republicans want to preserve liberty, they must be willing to sweat for the small, gritty fights that actually shape how Americans live.
This is not a call to abandon strong leaders — it is a call to stop treating fights about policy like personality contests. The conservative movement has always risen on principles: limited government, local control, family and faith. These principles win when ordinary citizens show up and hold local officials accountable; when parents decide what their children learn; when taxpayers demand fiscal responsibility from city halls. Nurturing institutions that outlast any one politician is the only way to keep socialism at bay.
Too many in our party have fallen into the trap of political infatuation, elevating a single figure into the centerpiece of strategy while the left quietly builds power in precincts and classrooms. That must change. Republicans should cultivate a pipeline of serious, principled candidates for local office, train volunteers to run campaigns, and make civic engagement a year-round mission — not an occasional spectacle for the cable TV cycle.
Practical action beats punditry every time: attend a school board meeting, knock on doors for a county supervisor, volunteer for a precinct committeeman, and give whatever you can to candidates who will defend parental rights, local law and order, and free enterprise. If conservatives mobilize at the neighborhood level, the national picture takes care of itself; if they do not, the march toward centralized, socialized solutions will feel inevitable. We are better than that; we are ready to work.
Tom Basile’s plea on America Right Now should be a rallying cry for every patriotic American who loves freedom more than fanfare. The post-Trump moment is an opportunity, not a crisis: rebuild the bench, fortify the towns, and teach our kids to cherish liberty so the left’s agenda dies in the ballots of local elections. Stand up, show up, and let the next generation inherit a country that still remembers what made it great.
