The cause also needed a popular base to succeed, one beyond the libertarians of the right, who were kindred in conviction but few in number. But no war is won with all generals and no infantry. Informed early on by one of his grantees that the playbook on revolutionary organization had been written by Vladimir Lenin, Koch dutifully cultivated a trusted “cadre” of high-level operatives, just as Lenin had done, to build a movement that refused compromise as it devised savvy maneuvers to alter the political math in its favor. While some others in the movement called themselves conservatives, he knew exactly how radical his cause was. “Koch never lied to himself about what he was doing.
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