Trump and Alinsky's Rules for Radicals

FreeRepubic.com ^ | 8-8-2015 | Self

[DouglasKC]

So here I was kind of watching Trump do all the interviews after the debate. And he was going after every journalist, by name, who said anything negative about him. And when he does that he'll usually mock, ridicule or denigrate them. It's very clear and very purposeful.

Now Trump detractors attribute that to being "thin skinned" or that he's some kind of baby that can't take tough questions. Really? The guy has been a player in the cutthroat world of business and finance for decades.

This is clearly a tactic. And then it hit me.

Recognize this?

RULE 5: “Ridicule is man’s most potent weapon.” There is no defense. It’s irrational. It’s infuriating. It also works as a key pressure point to force the enemy into concessions. (Pretty crude, rude and mean, huh? They want to create anger and fear.)

or this?

RULE 12: Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it.” Cut off the support network and isolate the target from sympathy. Go after people and not institutions; people hurt faster than institutions. (This is cruel, but very effective. Direct, personalized criticism and ridicule works.)

These are Alinskys rules for radicals and it's *exactly* what Trump is doing to every media person that is tearing him down. Megyn Kelly? No talent, unprofessional, bimbo. Luntz, conniving, childlike manipulator.

Donald Trump has found THE way to attack the media. He's never going to get good press coverage. Libs always will. So his choice is to either play patty cake with leftists in the hopes that the press will be nice to him...OR...he can destroy the press, control the narrative, and craft his own image.

Holy cow no wonder Trump is scaring the crap out the the left and the media. He's using their own freaking playbook against them!

In one deft move he's marginalizing the left's biggest weapon, the sycophant press.

Look at his interviews. He's doing it with all those who are speaking negatively about him. Ridicule, sarcasm, and personal attacks.

Like him or not THIS is the only way any conservative ever has a chance to win. I think this is a purposeful plan and he's at least 15 steps ahead of anyone else right now AND doing conservatives a huge favor by clearing out the pressitutes.

[IDontLikeToPayTaxes]

Nice catch on the Rules for Radicals analogy. For the life of me, I don't know why conservatives haven't been using these tactics for decades. The liberals have, to great success.

It seems that the entire conservative strategy for 40 years is to project weakness and submissiveness and hope for the best.

I hasn't worked, and will never work.

[Red Steel]

You’re on it. Trump can play their game and is besting them.

He’s a master at it.

[HiTech RedNeck]

Trump seems to be nominal, agnostic-ish based on the reports of how he views communion in his mainline Presbyterian church.

But that is not what is seeming to matter here.

If the Lord could raise a prophetic message through a literal donkey, then to do it through Donald Trump would be as easy as falling off a log.

[HiTech RedNeck]

I think they have forgotten where their roots were.

Which were from a time when large numbers of people said unabashedly, no king but Jesus.

With a nanny, welfare bribing government winning the kind of allegiance away that should have belonged to God, this dynamic has been fading.

Jesus from time to time warned stubborn sinners about the hell they were earning for themselves.

[LucyT]

These are Alinskys rules for radicals and it's *exactly* what Trump is doing to every media person that is tearing him down. Megyn Kelly? No talent, unprofessional, bimbo. Luntz, conniving, childlike manipulator.

Donald Trump has found THE way to attack the media.

"...no wonder Trump is scaring the crap out the the left and the media. He's using their own freaking playbook against them!

In one deft move he's marginalizing the left's biggest weapon, the sycophant press.

Look at his interviews. He's doing it with all those who are speaking negatively about him. Ridicule, sarcasm, and personal attacks.

Like him or not THIS is the only way any conservative ever has a chance to win. I think this is a purposeful plan and he's at least 15 steps ahead of anyone else right now AND doing conservatives a huge favor by clearing out the pressitutes.

Donald Trump. ... Out-alinksying the alinskyites.

See article.

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[SamAdams76]

We have seen how "playing nice" works out in the GOP.

I'm willing to see this Trump strategy play out to the end. This is something different that has not been tried before.

[LucyT]

Excerpted:

"As another Lame Cherry exclusive in matter anti matter.

"My children, did I not tell you and the brats that all of these 1000 candidates running for President in the GOP were put up to it, by the cartel in order to fracture the GOP just as it did for McCain and Romney, so Jebus Bush could be anointed for the GOP ticket?

"Now we see the scripted reality of Carly Fiorina, set out in the lower deck to gnash Donald Trump, without Mr. Trump there to defend himself and expose her, while Rand Paul was doing the girly gnash on Mr. Trump in the upper deck.

"The Mockingbird knew that ........oh by the way, it was SOMEONE WHO TWEETED TO MR. TRUMP and not Donald Trump who said that much about Megyn Kelly......and who shows up on Trump's page but minder Carly Fiorina, trashing Donald Trump again.

"I will remind you about Watergate and Plamegate in how the cartel left operates. Richard Nixon never had a thing to do with Watergate as George W. Bush never had a thing to do with Plame, but were drawn into it, just as Donald Trump was "drawn in" to this by someone elses Tweet, ALL DESIGNED BY Megyn Kelly and Carly Fiorina to siphon off the woman's vote from Mr. Trump."

Read More:

http://lamecherry.blogspot.com/2015/08/carly-fiorinas-bush-beans-blondes.html

[SatinDoll]

I LOVE WHAT DONALD TRUMP IS DOING - AND YES! I WILL VOTE FOR HIM IF THE CARTEL DOESN’T ASSASSINATE HIM FIRST.

[null and void]

[bgill]

The Donald mentioned the Washington Cartel during the debate.

[hoosiermama]

One thing I’ve learned from the vetting is The REAL Donald TRumpnis not at all what we are seeing or what we are told we are seeing.
When he was put in the position HANDS UP WE SHOOT! He didn’t shy away. Both his hands not one went up. He took their best shot but he has drawn the line. He WILL NOT BE INTIMIDATED

Like our Patriot forefathers he has placed his fortune ,his honor and even his life on the line. Thus far the American people have stood with him (poll numbers)

Our forefathers did not fight using the conventional methods of the time. Their volleys from behind walls and trees hit the targets. Use them as our example. Anything goes to bring the power back to WE THE PEOPLE

[sarasota]

Isn’t this what Sasah Palin did? We know how that ended.

[sarasota]

I hear you. Let’s not get too carried away with Trump’s rhetoric.

[sarasota]

I get the feeling that a lot of Trumps fans are in it for the ride and an opportunity to pile on aggression.. How many of his Twitter followers aren’t for the right (pun intended) reasons?

[HANG THE EXPENSE]

I noticed all this too. From out of nowhere here she comes from a failed run in calif. It will be interesting to see how Trump handles this. “Maybe the two black ladies can go after her”

[Art in Idaho]

We're at war dammit. The left is trying to destroy America.

We have to Fight like hell if we're going to restore our Sacred Republic!

Alinsky back at them every chance you get. Ridicule, no problem!

Try em' all, let God sortem' out:

The following is a list of Alinsky’s rules most commonly used by the left:

RULE 1: “Power is not only what you have, but what the enemy thinks you have.”

RULE 4: “Make the enemy live up to its own book of rules.”

RULE 5: “Ridicule is man’s most potent weapon.”

RULE 8: “Keep the pressure on. Never let up.”

RULE 12: “Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it.”

Of Alinsky's 12 rules, Rules 4, 5, 8, and 12 have been used to greatest effect by the Left.

The complete list:

RULE 1: “Power is not only what you have, but what the enemy thinks you have.”

RULE 2: “Never go outside the expertise of your people.”

RULE 3: “Whenever possible, go outside the expertise of the enemy.”

RULE 4: “Make the enemy live up to its own book of rules.”

RULE 5: “Ridicule is man’s most potent weapon.”

RULE 6: “A good tactic is one your people enjoy.”

RULE 7: “A tactic that drags on too long becomes a drag.”

RULE 8: “Keep the pressure on. Never let up.”

RULE 9: “The threat is usually more terrifying than the thing itself.”

RULE 10: “If you push a negative hard enough, it will push through and become a positive.”

RULE 11: “The price of a successful attack is a constructive alternative.”

RULE 12: “Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it.”

I hope Trump raises hell from now until election day. We've been 'Mr. Nice Guy' for far too long and have been intimidated by their Alinsky attacks. No more! Back at em' and charge!

[sport]

Mark 76

[HiTech RedNeck]

And then credited (kind of) the devil.

Seeing irony served up to the unreasonable is delicious. Making that your only meal is not wise.

[DouglasKC]

Isn’t this what Sasah Palin did? We know how that ended.

She never had the money or the influence to sustain it for long.