Posted on 01/28/2026 5:51:04 AM PST by MtnClimber
One thing that’s overlooked in Rules for Radicals – even by Alinsky himself – is the key role played by what I call “Alinsky Republicans” or “Alinsky conservatives.” These are the people who, despite their professed opposition to everything Alinsky and his book were trying to achieve, act as the catalyst – the trigger or fuse – for the climactic events leading to victory for radical activists. These are the defeatists, the doom trolls, who, after being frozen and personalized in good Alinskian fashion, simply give up, throw in the towel and sell out the cause they supposedly represent. They act as a kind of seed, in the same way that dust particles seed rainclouds, around which other weak sisters can congregate until enough come together to bring down the entire system and allow the barbarian hordes in.
They’re always around, waiting in the background. They’re always active, always ready to surrender. They’re active today.
As far as the very Alinskian campaign in Minneapolis goes, we’ve seen several of these pop up over the past few days.
Among them is former White House press secretary Dana Perino, whose solution is to declare victory and flee – what in the days of my youth was called the “Vietnam option.” Perino framed this as “advice” to Karoline Leavitt before Leavitt's critical Monday afternoon press conference.
“They’ve obviously arrested a lot of illegal immigrants… These are the people that we wanted to capture, and we got them. [and] these are the people that we’re still waiting for and we’re asking the governor and the mayor to do the right thing, get these criminals out of Minnesota, for the safety of Minnesota, and let’s move forward.”
In other words, Trump is supposed to put himself in the hands of the very people who triggered
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Republicans should be careful that they don’t help the democRATs with their haste to come out with a statement.
Republicans should also be cautious about listening to advice from “sages” who were also once the press secretary of George W. Bush.
What mattters is not what people say—it is what they do.
Deport, deport, deport.
That is what matters.
They believe they are helping their chances for the midterm elections. What they are really doing is destroying their chances in the midterms, because people are saying, there they go again, caving to the Democrats as always.
later
Pick the target, insane white leftist women, freeze it, polarize it.
If that book had been part of my HS curriculum, I might have been better prepared for working with people 10 years older than myself. I didn’t even know that I didn’t know and I didn’t know who did!
Few republicans have the huevos to play by the democrat party rules. If a democrat wins in 2028, the country is toast. They will open the border, they will pack scotus, every conservative judge will be impeached. Anyone who was in Trump’s administration will be arrested and imprisoned. And the GOP will sit on their thumbs happy to get the table scraps from the democrats, like they always do. They need to fight like hell and start throwing those rotten crooks in prison. I do what I can spoofing anti ICE sightings and enjoy them driving around the local Home Depot. I sign up the local DNC HQ for every junk mail listing I can find. I make sure to let the dnc ballot harvesters know the terroristic tendencies of their rotten party. But there’s not much one old fart can do. They are ruthless violent terrorists and need to be dealt with as such.
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