I think that tactic is a wee bit older than Saul Alinsky...
“I think that tactic is a wee bit older than Saul Alinsky”
It is. Don’t set up rules and moral codes for others you can’t live by yourself. That has nothing to do with Alinsky. Or to put it another way, if you want to enforce YOUR rules on others, you should be able to live by your own code.