The New Right openly aimed to destroy rather than reform existing institutions

Evidence

From the beginning, the New Right sought radical change. They would establish themselves “first as the opposition, then the alternative, finally the government,” according to Conservative Caucus chair Howard Phillips. “We will not try to reform the existing institutions. We only intend to weaken them and eventually destroy them,” said Weyrich protégé Eric Heubeck, writing for the Free Congress Foundation. “We will maintain a constant barrage of criticism against the Left. We will attack the very legitimacy of the Left. We will not give them a moment’s rest … We will use guerrilla tactics to undermine the legitimacy of the dominant regime.” — Katherine Stewart, The Power Worshippers, 237

Categorization

• SEED: Article angle: the contemporary ‘drain the swamp’ and ‘deconstruction of the administrative state’ rhetoric has a decades-old, openly stated blueprint from Weyrich’s circle.
• XREF: connects to: Neoliberalism forms one distinct faction within a fractious New Right coalition. — Philip Mirowski, Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste, 109; New conspiracism seeks destruction, not regime transformation or replacement — Russell Muirhead and Nancy L. Rosenblum, A Lot of People Are Saying: The New…, 75; Atomized masses are deliberately fabricated by destroying mediating institutions (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• Atomized masses are deliberately fabricated by destroying mediating institutions #expands (0.80)
• New conspiracism seeks destruction, not regime transformation or replacement #complicates (0.75) — Russell Muirhead and Nancy L. Rosenblum, A Lot of People Are Saying, 75
• Totalitarian rule required first destroying all intermediate communal institutions #expands (0.75) — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 763