Thread by @ConceptualJames

How Leftists do a coup, so maybe people can learn to see it, stop it, and counter it.

Aside from all the usual linguistic and policy tricks, they apply Alinsky sequentially and strategically. The Left picks strategic individuals as targets and makes scapegoats of them.

They hold up an individual person on their most significant weaknesses, usually exaggerated, decontextualized, or even fabricated, and make them a symbol of something "inclusive" society has to purge. A two-minutes-hate campaign follows. Shame is heaped on. Disaster looms.

That's not all. They pick one target and media hate-bomb the hell out of them until they're infamous, but the target isn't the target. It's always something bigger and institutional. While the scramble is on over the first target, they start another campaign against a second one.

They usually have campaigns and oppo stacked and prepared 4-6 targets deep, with that spanning about three months. The attacks are relentless, strategic, and hit in waves that dissolve the foundations of the target institutions. Conservatives and normals usually have no defense.

See, this is how Leftists do a coup, though, so don't think you can do it back to them easily. Expect they know how to resist it. They do. It's actually easy, unless you're an honest person or care about being seen as one. All it takes is: Have no shame, ignore attacks, do DARVO.

For reference, DARVO means "Deny, Attack, Reverse the roles of Victim and Offender." It's standard narcissistic abuse tactics and involves gaslighting, twisting meanings, crybullying, and other symptoms of psychopathy.
newdiscourses.com/2023/03/darvo/

Republicans can't launch these attacks, typically, because the Left can resist them. They also cannot resist them, generally. Why? They have shame, they always take up the content of the attacks and attack their colleagues, and they don't plan to attacks or counterattacks.

If you hit a Leftist with a normal accusation, they just ignore it completely. If you hit them with a damning one, they just move them somewhere else and let conservatives pretend they got a scalp. If they hit people with accusations, the attacks stick and burn like info napalm.

So that's how Leftists do a coup, picking off a series of strategic targets that make institutions fold. It's also why they're resistant to a similarly designed counter-coup, if one could even be organized. Tactically, this all needs to be understood to defend and counter.

Currently, state legislatures in conservative-majority states are getting sequentially hit with these attacks (Tennessee and Montana stand out at the moment) because opportunity arose. The model applies in macro to institutions and micro to individuals. We have to plan for it.