Rules for Patriots: How Conservatives Can Win Again

The conservative movement in America has no shortage of books explaining what it believes and why. What it has lacked, Steve Deace argues, is a book that shows how to actually win. Rules for Patriots is his answer, a strategic playbook for conservatives who are tired of eloquent defeats and ready to fight the cultural and political battles of their time with the same tactical intelligence and organizational seriousness that the left has deployed for decades. Deace's model is explicit: just as Saul Alinsky provided the left with a tactical framework in Rules for Radicals, he intends to give conservatives a comparable guide, rooted in genuine principles rather than mere power, but equally clear-eyed about the realities of political and cultural competition. The book draws on his experience as a talk radio host, commentator, and political activist to diagnose why the right so often loses battles it should win, and to outline the specific habits, strategies, and dispositions that would allow it to succeed. Endorsed by a broad coalition of figures across the conservative movement, Rules for Patriots is a bracing, plainspoken challenge to a movement that Deace believes holds the right values but too often lacks the will and the strategy to make them prevail where it actually counts.