[ArmstedFragg]

You might consider David Kahane’s “Rules for Radical Conservatives” as a text.

FWIW: For the last ten years, I’ve been handing out Alinsky’s book to Republican candidates when I discovered they were being attacked with his tactics. I’ve never had one read it, even when I cut it down to just the actual rules. A significant number of those candidates are now out of office, and probably still haven’t figured out what happened to them.

[cripplecreek]

I also look at guys like Edward Bernays and George Creel for further study on propaganda and public manipulation. They were pioneers in the field.

If we understand the mechanism and motives of the group mind, is it not possible to control and regiment the masses according to our will without their knowing about it? The recent practice of propaganda has proved that it is possible, at least up to a certain point and within certain limits.

-Bernays

In his 1965 autobiography, Bernays recalls a dinner at his home in 1933 where

Karl von Wiegand, foreign correspondent of the Hearst newspapers, an old hand at interpreting Europe and just returned from Germany, was telling us about Goebbels and his propaganda plans to consolidate Nazi power. Goebbels had shown Wiegand his propaganda library, the best Wiegand had ever seen. Goebbels, said Wiegand, was using my book Crystallizing Public Opinion as a basis for his destructive campaign against the Jews of Germany. This shocked me. ... Obviously the attack on the Jews of Germany was no emotional outburst of the Nazis, but a deliberate, planned campaign.