Why 21st century conservatism is doomed to lose the culture war in the long run

This afternoon I watched a documentary about the 80s M-tv phenomenon, Max Headroom. A section near the end of this documentary, once again hammered home for me how the left uses art as an extremely effective political vehicle. Max Headroom was of course long before leftists temporarily abandoned any semblance of tact as they became driven by Trump hysteria.

In a seemingly separate reality, several comic book artists have been forced into going independent as they became marginalized & ostracized by the mainstream comics industry for their political views. These independent artist, known as "comicsgate," have been so disillusioned by the experience, that they scoff at any form of political messaging.

There are thus 3 distinct political strategies described here. Firstly, you have the propagandist strategy of very subtly conveying messaging. Secondly, there's the strategy of forcefully infusing everything with politics, slamming the audience over the head with it & destroying the lives of dissenters. And lastly, there's the strategy of the fence rider. Which of these three, would you imagine is the one that works?

Unfortunately, there seems to be only two prevailing trains of thought on the right regarding the arts. On the one hand, there's the fence riders who believe the arts should be entirely void of politics and on the other, there are those who pump everything full of politics with the subtlety of a neanderthal.

The historian, Robert Conquest, noted that "Any organization not explicitly right-wing sooner or later becomes left-wing." If we were to apply this principal to the arts, it means that unless the right learns the art of relentless but subtle political messaging and how to harness the power of that messaging, the long term culture war belongs to the left.