The Rules for radicals. Note rule number 5
1.”Power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinks you have.”
2.”Never go outside the expertise of your people.”
3.”Whenever possible go outside the expertise of the enemy.”
4.”Make the enemy live up to its own book of rules.”
5.”Ridicule is man’s most potent weapon.”
6.”A good tactic is one your people enjoy.”
7. “A tactic that drags on too long becomes a drag.”
8.”Keep the pressure on.”
9. “The threat is usually more terrifying than the thing itself.”
10. .”The major premise for tactics is the development of operations that will maintain a constant pressure upon the opposition.”
11. “If you push a negative hard and deep enough it will break through into its counterside.”
12. “The price of a successful attack is a constructive alternative.”
13. “Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it.”
One of the things I've learned about Marxist insurgencies, is that while they're well-trained and tenacious, they don't know how to handle changes in tactics. In 2016, Trump turned the tables in Hillary and she couldn't handle it.
5.”Ridicule is man’s most potent weapon.”
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That’s what made the “birther” slur so effective to get an ineligible usurper in office.