May 19, 2018
Trump Is Going Full Alinsky – and His Opponents Are Flummoxed
By Brian C. Joondeph
Saul Alinsky's Rules for Radicals is considered a bible to the left, a how-to guide for community organizing and activism. Barack Obama was an Alinsky protégé before, during, and after his presidency. Obama used the rules to his advantage, advancing his left-wing agenda.
The left, despite conventional wisdom, has no monopoly on Alinsky's rules. Instead these rules can be used by the right, also as blueprint for effecting change.
No wonder I cannot tell the difference between Trump's acolytes and the rabid Marxists on the Left, they say and do the same exact things, using the same tactics.
I mean if the Left lies and intimidates and ridicules, why shouldn't the 'right'? right?
And then there's this:
The dirty little secret is that Alinsky has little in common with modern leftists. He would more likely be found at a Tea Party rally wearing a MAGA hat than at a resistance march wearing a pink bleep hat. As Ralph Benko writes, "Alinsky was an aggressively anti-communist, anti-big government, populist with a healthy contempt for liberals."
Oh REALLLLLLY??????
"The Communists did a hell of a lot of good work; they were in the vanguard of the labor movement and they played an important role in aiding blacks and Okies and Southern sharecroppers...Without the Communists, for example, I doubt the C.I.O. could have won all the battles it did. ...I think the Communists of the Thirties deserve a lot of credit for the struggles they led or participated in. Today the party is just a shadow of the past, but in the Depiession it was a positive force for social change." - Saul AlinskyAlinsky would make Robespierre blush, and he would have been twice the Terror had Alinsky been able to lead a genocidal movement like that.
But sure, yeah - I guess the author thinks Alinsky would be a Trump supporter and thinks using his tactics is a great idea - because the ends justifies the means - by whatever means one has to use to get there.
Genocidal madmen and bloodthirsty mobs is what you get with that kind of mentality.
