1) What Hath Saul Alinsky Wrought? "
His "Rules for Radicals" (1970) is the literal playbook for this Kavanaugh Smear.
" ... if I have anything to say about it, I will unreservedly choose to go to Hell. Hell would be heaven for me." Saul Alinsky, interviewed in "Playboy" (1972)
His "Rules for Radicals" (1970) is the literal playbook for this Kavanaugh Smear.
" ... if I have anything to say about it, I will unreservedly choose to go to Hell. Hell would be heaven for me." Saul Alinsky, interviewed in "Playboy" (1972)
2) "Lest we forget, at least an over-the-shoulder acknowledgment to the very first radical ... who rebelled against the establishment and did it so effectively that he at least won his own kingdom — Lucifer." Saul Alinsky, from Foreword to his "Rules for Radicals" (1970)
3) " ... agitate to the point of conflict ... rub raw the resentments of the people." Saul Alinsky, quoted by admiring accolyte Hillary Rodham in her Wellsley College senior thesis (1969)
4) Alinsky "Rules" the organized anti-Kavanuagh cabal find most expedient:
"Power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinks you have.
"Make the enemy live up to its own book of rules."
"Ridicule is man's most potent weapon."
"A good tactic is one your people enjoy."
"Power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinks you have.
"Make the enemy live up to its own book of rules."
"Ridicule is man's most potent weapon."
"A good tactic is one your people enjoy."
5) Alinsky's "Rules" (cont.)
"Keep the pressure on."
"The threat is usually more terrifying than the thing itself."
"Push a negative hard and deep enough to break through into its counterside"
"Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it."
"Keep the pressure on."
"The threat is usually more terrifying than the thing itself."
"Push a negative hard and deep enough to break through into its counterside"
"Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it."
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