“I say hit them hard with everything we got!”
Absolutely.
Remember back in the 60s when the left had pamphleteers on every street corner?
Even today, all the “alternative” newspapers I know of are left wing.
The left got where they are by yelling, disrupting, and threatening, not by being right about anything.
You know, that term "alternative" always fried me. I did some spot writing for them for awhile. One I wrote for years ago had a "Flush Rush" bumper sticker in the office. It was a great and prosperous little paper, but that was no thanks to its politics. It was thanks to its advertising.
I always wanted to ask the editors (and I think I did once or twice, but the answers didn't stay with me), "Alternative to WHAT?" But then again, some of the Weeklies were and truly are alternatives in that regard, so it's bad work to badmouth them entirely. The sad secret is that what was once a loosely bound network of independent small newspapers, were all bought up and conglomerated as one company. They're about as independent and unrelated as the L.A. Times, which owns (or vice versa) the Chicago Trib, along with KTLA Channel 5 news in L.A. All L.A. Times, in spite of the different names. Same now with about 90 percent of the weeklies, the last time I looked, though it's been awhile. I do see they're overwhelmingly activist liberal in their ideas of what's newsworthy.
Pamphlets ... advertising that works ... hmmmmmm ...