The LNC announced that it retained Nathan Fatal as their new Political Director. Fatal had been Director of Community Organizing at the Leadership Institute. He has reportedly trained over 10,000 activists around the world and has overseen hundreds of volunteers and political campaign staff members in the United States.
The Leadership Institute was founded in 1979 by Morton Blackwell to train conservatives in campaigns, fundraising, grassroots organizing, youth politics, and communications. Since its foundation, it has by its count trained more than 250,000 activists. The rationale behind its foundation and success is described by Richard Viguerrie in his wonderful book America’s Right Turn: How Conservatives Used New and Alternative Media to Take Power.
The Leadership Institute properly and proudly boasts that it “…freely shares its most valuable resource – its list of students trained and its list of conservative student campus groups – with other conservative organizations.” Viguerrie identifies this approach as being critical to the success of his and other conservative groups and direct mail houses.
Readers may contrast this Leadership Institute policy with the non-disclosure agreements that litter the modern LNC approach to doing business. We may politely hope that Fatal will be able to navigate the shoals of LNC systematic confidentiality, which represent an opposite to the policies Viguerrie says were central to the conservative march to victory of 1960-1980.
I find it funny that they would hire an Ops Director & a Political Director before hiring an ED. The ED should have been brought on first & then allowed to assemble the team they want. Also didn’t this need to be brought in front of the LNC for a vote? Of course I am sure the 10 folks who do LNC Business on Discord did a full vetting.
I seem to recall that someone needs to vote to approve the contract.