[Beckwith]

She also started out as a conservative and a Methodist.

She was a stone cultural Marxist during her days at Wellesley College. Her hero was Saul Alinsky who is often credited with laying the foundation for confrontational political tactics that dominated the 1960s.

Alinsky was a ferocious critic of mainstream liberalism. A champion of radical propaganda tactics and propaganda techniques, Alinsky encouraged deception in organizational strategy.

She wrote her undergraduate thesis on his work and ideas.

She later implemented those ideas as the First Lady and is personally responsible for poisoning the political well in America.

[adgirl]

Alinsky encouraged deception in organizational strategy.

how did he justify it?

[originalbuckeye]

I meant before she went to college. IIRC she was a Goldwater girl in Illinois.