Someone needs to write a book that details techniques to combat Alinsky tactics. I can see public school teachers using his tactics against conservative parents and fellow teachers, but not many people are ready with an effective come-back.
Alinsky books describe tactics to be used in organizing. These tactics are ideologically neutral.
In fact, the tea party and many grass roots groups use these tactics all the time. That is because they are common sense.
These tactics are like tools, like a gun or knife. They can be used for good or for evil.
Books have been written to counter Alinsky tactics and present alternative tactics. Most of those books are written by other leftists, both MAO/CHE type leftists and Hubert Humphrey/Scoop Jackson type traditional union leftists.
A few have been written by non-leftits. The one I prefer of course is GAMES COMMUNITY ORGANIZATIONS PLAY. Written in the 70s, it uses the metaphor of Transactional Analysis pop psychology (I’M OK, You’re OK, Games People Play, Games Alcoholics Play, etc.)
GAMES COMMUNITY ORGANIZATIONS PLAY was sold widely at National Training and Info Center (NTIC) sessions in the 70s.
The book GAMES PEOPLE PLAY describes impotent games such as AINT IT AWFUL in which nobody changes position in the game.
It then describes the traditional liberal game of RESCUE, a 3-handed game in which there is a persecutor/oppressor and a victim and a rescuer.
It then describes games in which people change position in the game such as LET’S YOU AND HIM FIGHT and LET’S PLAY A FAST ONE ON JOEY. These are the favorite games of the Alinsky organizer.
A key point of this approach is that people are players in the game, even when they don’t realize it. Thus the plight of hapless JOEY. We can see these games when Trent Lott, Orrin Hatch, Mithc McConnell and other establishment Republicans are repeatedly suckered into letting the left frame the issue with a false premise. Then the establishment Republican tries to build a conservative/Republican position from the false premise.
The book GAMES COMMUNITY ORGANIZATIONS PLAY took the individual psychology approach and just expanded it with detail to describe the games in the context of Alinsky organizing.
Of course, I’m biased on this.