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Trump Is Going Full Alinsky – and His Opponents Are Flummoxed
American Thinker ^ | May 19, 2018 | Brian C. Joondeph

Posted on 05/19/2018 5:48:12 AM PDT by mairdie

...The left, despite conventional wisdom, has no monopoly on Alinsky's rules. Instead these rules can be used by the right, also as blueprint for effecting change.

The dirty little secret is that Alinsky has little in common with modern leftists. As Ralph Benko writes, "Alinsky was an aggressively anti-communist, anti-big government, populist with a healthy contempt for liberals." He would more likely be found at a Tea Party rally wearing a MAGA hat than at a resistance march wearing a pink pussy hat. ...

President Trump, knowingly or unknowingly, has co-opted Alinsky's Rules for Radicals, using them effectively to advance his agenda. How ironic that the tactics of the left are being used against the leftists themselves. The left knows the rules only for playing offense. Now that the rules are being used against it, it is at a loss as to how to react and respond.

For Trump-supporters, typically being on the losing end of Alinsky's rules, it's a refreshing treat to finally be on offense, scoring touchdowns, leaving Democrats and NeverTrumps babbling and unable to stop or slow the Trump train.

(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...


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To: coon2000
1) Are you joking or actually a complete fool? Can you really be saying that posting a long excerpt with a link to a well-known, reputable source (which itself provides its own linked sources) which totally disproves the claims of the thread's article, is “lazy.” But that your half-baked one sentence jerk-off replies are the opposite?

2) If you are not joking: The backbone of FR is the posting of links to the writings and quotes of others - you dumb-ass slug. If you're too lazy to read the article I linked or even the full quote I posted, so that you can intelligently reply to their substance, then you know where you can shove your jerk-off replies.

61 posted on 05/20/2018 12:33:42 PM PDT by drpix
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Thank you for the post by a Canadian Philosopher and Facebook blogger. I now feel as enlightened as you. LOL!!!


62 posted on 05/20/2018 1:32:14 PM PDT by coon2000 (Give me Liberty or give me death)
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To: coon2000
To repeat: "...too lazy to read the article I linked or even the full quote I posted, so that you can intelligently reply to their substance..."


63 posted on 05/20/2018 1:52:03 PM PDT by drpix
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