annabenedetti
like marbles on glass
Big deal.
It was a big deal. What they had to do to clear the crowd for that despicable photo op he dragged the military into (Defense Secretary Esper and Gen. Mark Milley) and tear-gassed a minister out of the church for his grandstanding - was yes, a big deal.
A familiar tactic the Socialist wing of the Democratic Party is to accuse their opponent of what they are guilty of. There are scores of examples.
Whataboutism is common in every demographic. How many times do we hear "but the Democrats..." here? All the time. It can be tempting for most of us to say "what about..." and as for using specific Alinsky tactics, I've been observing for quite a while now that the right has become very good at it, so much so that I'd started seeing references to it, so I don't think it's going to be possible for the right to claim innocence of the tactic, not anymore.
Tea Party leader and “the co-founder of Top Conservatives on Twitter” Michael Patrick Leahy has written an entire book based off of Alinsky's “shocking” work, deftly entitled: Rules for Conservative Radicals: Lessons from Saul Alinsky[!] the Tea Party Movement and the Apostle Paul in the Age of Collaborative Technologies. In his book, “Leahy argues that today's conservative radical should follow the tactics of Saul Alinsky, but apply the morals and ethics of Martin Luther King."
James O'Keefe is also a fan. The Los Angeles Times reported that O'Keefe found an “unlikely source of inspiration” in Alinsky and O'Keefe “took to heart” Alinsky's principle to: “Make the enemy live up to its own book of rules.”
Also, on Fox News' Glenn Beck, David Horowitz advocated for conservatives to follow “what Saul Alinsky argues”