That is employing them in a virtuous way.
Where the leftists use ridicule, we use humor.
The works of Alinsky were drawn entirely from Machiavelli.
The Italian was a master at making vice look like virtue.
If you have ever wondered why the Obama-ites "look" upstanding but are underneath sloshing cauldrons of waste material you can thank the Italian and his vicious ways.
The trick is to reverse it and do the same kind of things, but virtuously.
You have to fight on several fronts. Throwing Alinsky back at them at least neutralizes that front, and it’s a front where Conservatives have taken a severe beating.