Shoving Alinsky's Rules for Radicals Right Back in the Left's Ugly Face
By Kurt Schlichter
TownHall.com
The Left is getting massively out-Alinskyed, and
the hilarious thing is that this band of withered
hippies, unemployable millennial safe-space cases,
and unlovable + unshaven libfeminists don’t even
know it. Oh, their masters sure know it. Soros is
bitterly having to ramp up his infusions of blood
money to keep his community-organized “grassroots”
movements afloat. The less dumb ones among the lying
dinosaur media are panicking as their influence
fades, and Chuck Schumer is enduring such a non-stop
parade of serial humiliations that if the Senate
were a penitentiary, he’d be McConnell’s prison
Mitch.
The Leftist mafia godmaleidentifyingparents pulling
the strings of the Marxist Muppets know the score –
they are losing. And it’s awesome. Because, finally,
the Right has taken Saul Alinsky’s Rules for
Radicalsand shoved it up where #TheResistance don’t
shine.
Thank you, Andrew Breitbart. You yelled “Follow me!”
and led a movement that had previously been
dominated by doofy wonks and bow-tied geeks over the
top in a glorious bayonet charge against the paper
tiger liberal elite. The Left hadn’t taken a good,
solid gut punch since Ronald Reagan turned the Oval
Office keys over to the wimpcons who found fighting
Democrats uncouth because conflict made for awkward
luncheons down at the club. Bizarrely, the guy who
picked up the standard and carried it forward when
our beloved commander was felled by fate was a New
York billionaire with no identifiable ideological
foundation who instinctively understood the one
thing that could make up for his other failings: He
knows how to fight liberals and win. For Donald
Trump and the revitalized conservative movement,
Alinsky's book isn’t some dusty old commie tome -
it’s a lifestyle.
Alinsky’s Rules are relatively simple, and they
make sense when you are fighting a conventional
opponent with an interest in maintaining the status
quo. The Rules are terrific for dealing with an
old-school conservative guy who drives a Buick,
enjoys gardening, and doesn’t want any trouble. They
aren’t so effective against conservative brawlers
who like to punch, and who aren’t too fussy about
whether it’s with
tweets or with fists.
The Rules are not some magic incantation; they are
simply some tactical principles that work in certain
kinds of fights against certain kinds of opponents –
particularly ones willing to unilaterally disarm in
the face of an unprincipled enemy. But once the
secret is out, it’s relatively easy to turn them
around on an enemy that is so stupid it thinks it’s
going to gain widespread acceptance among normal
Americans by dressing up as genitalia. That’s why
the thirteen classic Alinsky Rules are playing out
right now in a way the Left did not expect.
Rule 1: “Power is not only what you have, but what
the enemy thinks you have.” Actually, we now have a
lot of power. No, we don’t have direct power over
liberal bastions like Hollywood, the media and
academia, but by threatening to use governmental
levers of power to impact their tax breaks,
copyright laws, and subsidies, we can pound them
into submission. And Trump is clearly willing to use
all his powers to beat the living liberalism out of
our enemy.
Wait, this is where the Fredocons loosen
their bow ties and stutter, “Why…we can’t…Professor
Wellington Wimpenheimer IV would not approve…it’s so
mean…oh, well I never!”
Wake up. Man up. If you ever want to win (and maybe
someday even kiss a girl) you need to get real. They hate us,
and we either win or we spend the rest of our
miserable lives as Boxer
the Horse, slaving away to fund the welfare
state under the lash of the Left until it decides
it’s time to pack us off to the glue factory.
Rule 2: “Never go outside the expertise of your
people” and Rule 3: “Whenever possible, go outside
the expertise of the enemy.” Stupid GOP wonkcons
want to fight to where the liberals are strong, like
on entitlements. Trump is smart enough to fight
where liberals are weak, like on the economy. And
he’s going to throw down some serious jujitsu by
doing a liberal thing – infrastructure spending – in
a conservative way. He's a developer – he knows how
to build stuff, and he will freak the Left out by
delivering concrete results (not the least of them,
a wall) where liberals (for whom “infrastructure”
means giving our money to their deadbeat
constituents) never actually build stuff anymore. As
a conservative, I’m not thrilled about
“infrastructure” spending. But as a conservative
insurgent who wants to see the Left on its
collective collectivist back, twitching like a dying
roach, I’m thrilled.
Rule 4: “Make the enemy live up to its own book of
rules.” This is not so much about pointing out the
lies and hypocrisy that constitute Leftist orthodoxy
– the vicious racism they deny is racism because
it’s anti-white, the racism against non-whites who
refuse to serve a liberal master, the sexism against
women who think babies should be actually be born,
and so on. It’s about not letting them tie us into
knots by using our morals and values as bear traps
to immobilize and neutralize us. Fortunately, most
of us have discovered how losing
our superficial “political values” helps us regain
our freedom. We have embraced the power of not#caring.
And liberals have no idea what to do when they shout
“Trump is a meanie,” and we shrug, smile, and bust
out with an impromptu interpretive dance to
celebrate Neil Gorsuch.
Rule 5: “Ridicule is man’s most potent weapon.”
Actually, the AR15 a more potent weapon, but
ridicule will do as long as the Left doesn't try to
make good on its countless threats of violence and
tyranny. Regardless, we finally we have a
conservative corps that is willing to mock the
members of that motley collection of pompous, inept,
lying jerks we call the Democrat Party and its media
catamite corps. When they turn around and try to
mock us back, well, we aren’t watching their late
night hack comics anymore, and frankly they can make
all the jokes they want. The punchline is still
going to be “And then the Republicans repealed
Obamacare.”
Rule 6: “A good tactic is one your people enjoy.”
I’m having fun watching the liberals lose. How about
you?
Rule 7: “A tactic that drags on too long becomes a
drag.” I don’t know – I doubt I am ever going to be
tired of so much #winning.
Rule 8: “Keep the pressure on. Never let up.”
Remember the Trump outrage du jour a couple days ago
when we were supposed to be on the verge of war with
Australia? Well, Down Under’s kangaroos and giant
scary spiders still wander freely, and we’ve long
since moved on. President Trump has been busy owning
the news cycle with appointments, executive orders,
and the occasional squirrel-sighting tweet that
sends the media chasing off on a rodent-seeking
tangent. Oh no, Kellyanne Conway said to buy
Ivanka’s stuff – if I ever cared (and I never did),
I’ve already moved on to giggling about the
progressive freak out over
ICE being allowed to do its job again.
Rule 9: “The threat is usually more terrifying than
the thing itself.” No, Alinsky was wrong. The thing
itself is much, much worse – as Democrats will find
out when President Trump signs the law mandating
national concealed carry reciprocity.
Rule 10: “The major premise for tactics is the
development of operations that will maintain a
constant pressure upon the opposition.” Democrats
are trying to do the massive resistance thing again,
and it’s going about as well as when they tried themassive
resistance thing against integration. It may
arouse libs in blue cities and on
soon-to-be-defunded college campuses, but normals
are getting tired of the nonstop Leftist nonsense.
See Rule 7. Conversely, Trump’s nonstop series of
orders, appointments, and policies seems to be
helping him – mostly because they
are popular.
Rule 11: “If you push a negative hard enough, it
will push through and become a positive.” Unhinged
Leftist obstruction, including violence, is
driving people right. However, leftist harping
on Trump’s rough edges seems to be backfiring –
instead of “Oh my, what a brute!” people seem to be
saying “Good. He fights.”
Rule 12: “The price of a successful attack is a
constructive alternative.” Trump has a program and
it’s popular. What’s the Democrats’ program? “Give
us more of your money so we can buy votes from
welfare cheats, and then we’ll lecture you on your
privilege?”
The Democrats have no meaningful policies because
their entire focus is on them regaining and keeping
power – that’s their desired end state, not a
country made great again, and that’s why they get no
traction anywhere on the map outside of the
dysfunctional blue spots. Watch for then to
eventually seriously propose secession by the
liberal states – after the last few months, I’ve
been tempted to move my novelPeople’s
Republic, about California ignoring the
admonition to never go full Venezuela, over to the
nonfiction section.
Rule 13: “Pick the target, freeze it, personalize
it, and polarize it.” Well, they try to. They try to
make Trump a demonic chimera composed of bits and
pieces of Hitler, Mussolini, and more Hitler, and he
just doesn’t care. We don’t care, because we know
what they are really saying is that we normals are
the monsters, that it’s not Trump governing that is
illegitimate but that it is we normals having a
voice in governing ourselves that is illegitimate.
And now we are woke, as the ridiculous Left would
put it, to the Left’s tired Alinsky antics. We see
it’s all a lie. It’s all a scam. And we aren’t
playing the game by their rules anymore.