Key New Right strategist wanted low voter turnout to boost conservative power

Evidence

Weyrich went on to call for a constitutional convention in hopes of producing a form of government more congenial to conservatism. “I don’t want everybody to vote,” he said at a gathering in the fall of 1980. “As a matter of fact, our leverage in the elections quite candidly goes up as the voting populace goes down.” — Katherine Stewart, The Power Worshippers, 238

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the earlier chapter claim that Christian nationalist strategy is elite capture plus turnout games — this is the revealed logic underneath restricted-voting pushes today. — connects to: The right adopted religious mobilization in imitation of the left’s success; New Right strategists openly sought lower voter turnout to increase their leverage — Katherine Stewart, The Power Worshippers: Inside the…, 238
• recurring: this claim recurs 2 times within its source