Trying, I was addressing that very parenthetical side note.
I’m not sure the trend is continuing rightward, or rather, upward. While the community grew over the years, giving way to a comfortable feeling of being in our own world, there is also the opposite drive. We reached the stage of settling in America, and the general goal and direction was toward more Yiddishkeit. Now, it seems to have climaxed.
There are a lot of dried up souls around. If you want to continue the upward drive, the best thing would be to infuse our children with Geshmack and love for Torah and Mitzvos. It would help if Mosdos Hatorah would teach meaning in Mitzvos. In Europe, Beis Yaakov taught Choreb, from Rabbi Shamshon Refael Hirsh. I don’t know why they discontinued it. Today there is a new brand, the Laughing Rabbis. Whatever works.