Leonard Leo of the Federalist Society has revealed that he plans to “crush liberal dominance” across American life. Leo is launching the Teneo Network, a group he called “a tremendously important resource for the future of our country.”

Teneo is building what Leo described as “networks of conservatives that can roll back” liberal influence — not just among finance and tech but among authors and Hollywood producers. Leo said in a video announcing the project, “I just said to myself, ‘Well, if this can work for law, why can’t it work for lots of other areas of American culture and American life where things are really messed up right now?’”

My advice for Leo: Your most important job is supporting struggling and marginalized conservative artists, particularly filmmakers and actors. For more than a century, the Left has discovered and cultivated authors, actors, movie makers, and poets. The Right needs to do the same.

Leo’s new project will mean recognizing that creative talent can sometimes be eccentric, intense, and even a bit crazy. My late brother was an actor who won the Helen Hayes Award in the 1980s for a play he starred in about Vietnam. I remember meeting his fellow actors (some of whom are famous now). These people were emotional, performative, hilarious, and often brilliant. Conservatism is conservatism because it tends to shy away from the crazy, but that’s often where you’ll find genius.

Also, a small investment can go a long way. Here I offer a personal example. I recently published a book, The Devil’s Triangle , about how the Stasi American Left tried to drag me into the Brett Kavanaugh Supreme Court confirmation hearing and destroy Brett, a friend from high school. It was a highly dramatic, indeed epochal, event. On Saturday Night Live, Matt Damon famously played Brett and, in a skit about the 1980s, Adam Driver played me .

Afterward, I got a call from a successful Hollywood actor who sympathizes with conservatives. “If you were a liberal who had turned on your friend,” he said, “you’d have a grant to write a screenplay and a job at Vanity Fair. But the Right just isn’t good at supporting the arts, which is a shame. It’s an incredible story.”

He was right. I worked on the book for several years for no money and couldn't get any support on the Right for a screenplay. It’s the kind of project that, were I on the Left, would have found backers and foundational support. In the meantime, an A-list Hollywood director and producer put together a hit job on Kavanaugh. He has millions of dollars to work with.

Imagine what an investment into my project could have produced — a film that is equal parts Risky Business, The Lives of Others, and All the President’s Men. We would have a screenplay and the ability to go to Hollywood to actually sell it. Instead, this potentially culture-shaping work of art never got off the ground.

Liberals are great at making a cultural investment that will pay off huge in the long run and deeply affect the culture. They often do so for very little. In 1967, a college student named Jann Wenner borrowed $7,500 and founded Rolling Stone magazine because he wanted to cover the music and culture that was providing poetry to his generation. Wenner, who recently published a memoir, hired talent — not relatives or college buddies, as is often the case with conservative media. Hunter S. Thompson, Lester Bangs, and Cameron Crowe all got their start at Rolling Stone. Crowe was just 15 and went on to become a great filmmaker. His first book, Fast Times at Ridgemont High, became a cultural touchstone in the 1980s. It also revealed to the world the remarkable talent of Sean Penn, genius actor and far-left nut.

Where is the conservative Sean Penn? Wherever he is, he’s probably on the verge of giving up his dream because he or she is isolated and has no support.

When liberalism grew ascendant in the popular culture, conservatives didn’t offer an alternative. They spent decades simply reacting to the Left. To some extent, this is understandable; the Left's cultural revolution was taken to us, and liberals were (and are) the aggressors. It was necessary to respond.

The Right needs people such as Ben Shapiro. But it also needs a Martin Scorsese, a Johnny Depp, a Meryl Streep. It needs artists and dreamers and writers and weirdos. Clint Eastwood affected the culture much more than any politico and made aesthetically great films while doing it. Eastwood is now 92. Where is his young successor?

If the Left does own popular culture, it's because they worked hard for it, employing the conservative values of perseverance, endless rehearsal to master a craft, and rewarding creativity. There is a chasm that separates the massive infrastructure that the Left has erected over the last 100 years and the tiny space that establishment conservatism has allocated to popular culture.

If Leonard Leo wants to make up that space, he can start writing checks to the intense, passionate, weird, and crazy people who will make the great art that will change hearts and minds. He could also get behind The Devil’s Triangle, the movie . Adam Driver, who already did it once, can play me — this time with some accuracy.

Mark Judge is an award-winning journalist and the author of  The Devil' s Triangle: Mark Judge vs. the New American Stasi . He is also the author of God and Man at Georgetown Prep, Damn Senators, and A Tremor of Bliss.