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Running Saul Alinsky’s playbook in Minneapolis
American Thinker ^ | 27 Jan, 2026 | Drew Allen

Posted on 01/27/2026 6:31:24 AM PST by MtnClimber

Those enforcing the law are blamed, those breaking it are excused, and the public is told that the only way to stop the disorder is to surrender authority.

Fifty-five years ago, Democrat activist and community organizer Saul Alinsky published Rules for Radicals. Its stated purpose was not reform, persuasion, or compromise, but disruption -- manufacturing chaos, provoking conflict, and inciting revolution as a means of political change.

Alinsky was explicit: power is seized, not earned, and the ends always justify the means. More than half a century later, the book has not faded into obscurity. It remains the Left’s operating manual -- its tactical guide and its justification for tearing down institutions in the name of “progress.”

Alinsky prescribed a deliberate three-step process for political change -- one rooted not in persuasion, but in pressure. We are watching Alinsky’s guerrilla warfare techniques play out in real time in Minneapolis right now.

The first step is to create a crisis.

Alinsky argued that in a complex society, people do not act until they are forced to. The organizer’s job is to trigger a crisis by “rubbing raw the sores of discontent.” The crisis must be intensified to generate motivation.

Over the past year, Democrats nationwide have relentlessly vilified ICE agents for doing their lawful job -- enforcing federal immigration law. Agents tasked with apprehending illegal aliens are portrayed not as law enforcement, but as villains, fascists, and moral monsters. This rhetoric has not merely poisoned public discourse; it has actively encouraged confrontation between federal agents and radical protesters.

Even as this Democrat-designed and Democrat-sustained conflict has resulted in real-world tragedy, Minnesota’s leadership continues to escalate rather than de-escalate. Tim Walz has repeatedly attempted to delegitimize ICE itself, asserting that its agents are “not law enforcement”

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TOPICS: Society
KEYWORDS: alinsky; civilunrest; democrats; domesticenemies; hell; insurgency; leftism; leftistviolence; leftwingnuts; lucifer; rebellion; rulesforradicals; saulalinsky
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To: MtnClimber

Walz and Frey set Trump up to fail by encouraging people to get close to ICE operations and “peacefully protest”, knowing that if situations like this happened, the blowback would be on Trump.

Pulling back and firing Noem will not undo the damage but will allow Trump to buy time while things cool down. He needs a Hegseth in charge.


21 posted on 01/27/2026 7:38:24 AM PST by bigbob (We are all Charlie Kirk now)
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To: MtnClimber

Lenin’s playbook. Alinsky was just a popularizer.


22 posted on 01/27/2026 7:39:08 AM PST by Salman
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To: bigbob
Walz and Frey set Trump up to fail by encouraging people to get close to ICE operations and “peacefully protest”, knowing that if situations like this happened, the blowback would be on Trump.

Which demonstrates how evil these people are, hoping and expecting deaths.

23 posted on 01/27/2026 7:40:31 AM PST by 1Old Pro
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To: MtnClimber

Only Republicans can be blindsided in politics by a 60 year old published playbook for leftist radicals. When your enemy’s battle plan and operations rules is given to you, you’re supposed to act on it for the tactics, not cry about it for sixty years. It’s not even very good.


24 posted on 01/27/2026 7:46:58 AM PST by blackdog (The philosophy of the schoolroom in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.)
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To: blackdog

Republicans = Washington Generals

25 posted on 01/27/2026 7:48:31 AM PST by MinorityRepublican
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To: brownsfan

And the media supports it and stokes the fires of chaos.


26 posted on 01/27/2026 8:22:20 AM PST by redangus
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To: MinorityRepublican

Exactly. File that one under the “Ridicule Rule”.


27 posted on 01/27/2026 8:24:57 AM PST by blackdog (The philosophy of the schoolroom in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.)
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To: oldtech

A nation of laws only works when the people follow the laws. Our nation was founded on the expectation that it would always be inhabited by a moral, god-fearing people. Sadly, we are no longer that type of country.

You can never have enough LEO to control unlawful people unless you are willing to kill, which I do not condone, nor do our government official sanction. We are not Soviet Russia, Red China, Nazi Germany or Iran as much as MSNBC, CNN and Democrat leadership would like people to believe.


28 posted on 01/27/2026 8:27:55 AM PST by redangus
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To: Salman

Revolution until we win and then put down revolutions with weapons. Eliminate all the people we used to bring down the government so they don’t bring us down.


29 posted on 01/27/2026 8:35:20 AM PST by AppyPappy (They don't call you a Nazi because they think you are one. They do it to justify violence. )
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To: antidemoncrat; All

the Democrats ONLY bible


30 posted on 01/27/2026 9:10:25 AM PST by SMARTY (In politics, stupidity is not a handicap. Napoleon Bonaparte I)
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#11: "If you push a negative hard and deep enough it will break through into its counterside; this is based on the principle that every positive has its negative."

If Freepers would actually look at what Andy Ngo, Cam Higby, DataRepublican, have uncovered in the last 48 hours as to Antifa's offshore funding (using fake Pali GoFundMe's), as well as Antifa's to-the-moment plans for Minnesomali -- which post-Pretti have been a communist call to arms to make Minneapolis a "New Fallujah" -- you would know that Antifa is "pushing through" #11.

Despite all the spin of today's news cycle, the only response is to counter with #11, and lay down the Insurrection Act.

31 posted on 01/27/2026 3:09:52 PM PST by StAnDeliver (Trump II)
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To: StAnDeliver

Somebody once said ‘stuck on stupid’ The Heavenly Father called them ‘sottish’.. and so it goes.


32 posted on 01/27/2026 3:12:22 PM PST by Just mythoughts (Matthew 24:32 Now learn a parable of the fig tree; When his branch is yet tender, .........)
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To: MtnClimber

Bkmk


33 posted on 01/28/2026 8:42:16 AM PST by sauropod
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To: sauropod

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34 posted on 01/28/2026 9:48:55 AM PST by sauropod
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