To build up a good approach it would be required to provide and intellectual basis. Leftism was a kind of trampling of Biblical Values. Or subverting Biblical values to serve its purpose by means of useful idiots. However the Right has just as much claim to intellectual virtue through a different array of patron saints.
That is-- the left had a list of patron saints. Freud, Marx, Russeou. Some people were absorbed into the Left like Nietzsche, though he was not a leftist at all.
My suggestion is to emphasize a whole different set of patron saints. Moses, Hegel, Kant, Gra, Israel Salanter, Rav Shach, Tosphot, Rambam, the Ari (Isaac Luria). [The Rambam, the Ari and Hegel are very Neo-Platonic so it is easy to fit them into one system.]
As for the last three the basic idea is that there is no reason to think that one could be put into a room with the Oral and Written Law of Moses and come up on my own the basic approach of Torah. If I understand the importance of learning Torah as a value in itself and of working to attain good character traits and if learning Torah in depth, then I owe a debt of gratitude to these individual who worked this out and showed the way.
What you need from each of the above thinkers is this: The Gra for learning Torah; Rav Shach and Tosphot for showing the depth of Torah; Kant for the limitation of reason and knowledge that is known but not through physical senses nor through reason. [One could have used the Rambam for that also.]
The Rambam for Torah Law, and learning Physics and Metaphysics. The Ari and Hegel for Metaphysics. John Locke for freedom and private property. The last one you could have gotten from the Two Talmuds but for some reason most people miss the message there. They think the welfare state and Socialism which is organized theft is kosher. Reb Israel Salanter one needs for good character plus fear of God.Z..The Gra has a whole school of disciples that are worthwhile to learn: the commentaries on the page of the Yerushalim Talmud, the Nefeh HaChaim, the Netziv, etc. The Nefesh HaChaim is important from many angles. One of the points he brings out is that intention to unite one's soul to the soul of a tzadik righteous person is idolatry.[Rav Kook the founder or religious Zionism already incorporated Hegel into his ideas as is well known. ]
Hegel sort of tried to take the place of Aquinas in solving the dilemma between faith and reason. [To Aquinas that was Christianity with Aristotle. To Hegel that was Protestant Christianity with Plato, Plotinus, the presocratics and Kant] However, Aquinas was wildly successful in his influence on all Christian civilization after him. Hegel in an ironic way had the opposite effect. he became the patron saint of the radical left and had zero effect on the right which went with john Locke, Montesquieu and the English system. Rav Nachman also had an ironic effect. He also wanted to reconcile the straight Litvak approach of straight learning and keeping Torah with no changes, no extras, nor subtractions. But the effect is the opposite unless people have a solid ground and deep roots in the world of the Litvaks, the Gra, and Musar. Besides Hegel, the person with the deepest but unrecognized effect on the Right is Goethe. Everything, every meme, every idea became part of Western vocabulary, and intellectual structure that you can hear in almost every person’s everyday conversation
