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.
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.