RULE 12: "Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it."
In fact, you can track most of the things he does by reading the Rules. Not an original thinker, merely charming.
“He is merely following his own playbook. Alinsky’s Rules for Radicals”:
...you’re on target with that! He reads that book like Ted Kennedy reads “How to Make a Perfect Martini”.