Alinsky Rule No. 4: Make The Enemy Live Up To Its Own Book Of Rules

For over twenty years, I have advocated for the conservative movement and the Republican Party to read, understand, and implement Saul Alinsky’s Rules for Radicals against the growing Marxist Left. It is their bible, their playbook, and they use it to great effect. But that political manual could serve a more moral and principled master.

The perfect time for implementing at least one of Alinsky’s rules – Rule No. 4 – is before us in the Democrat Party’s need to gerrymander their presidential nominating process. If the Republican National Committee and the usual suspect conservative think tanks can get out of their own way, the successful implementation of this rule will leave the Democrat Party in unrecoverable chaos for the 2024 and perhaps even the 2026 and 2028 elections.

The Rules

The full list of Saul Alinky’s rules, which the Marxists of the hilariously named “Progressive” Movement (it should be more along the lines of the “repressive” or “oppressive” movement for its steeped totalitarianism), reads:

1. Power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinks you have.

2. Never go outside the experience of your people.

3. Whenever possible go outside of the experience of the enemy.

4. Make the enemy live up to its own book of rules.

5. Ridicule is man's most potent weapon. There is no defense. It is almost impossible to counterattack ridicule. Also it infuriates the opposition, who then react to your advantage.

6. A good tactic is one your people enjoy.

7. A tactic that drags on too long becomes a drag.

8. Keep the pressure on.

9. The threat is usually more terrifying than the thing itself.

10. The major premise for tactics is the development of operations that will maintain a constant pressure upon the opposition.

11. If you push a negative hard and deep enough it will break through into its counterside; this is based on the principle that every positive has its negative.

12. The price of a successful attack is a constructive alternative.

13. Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it.

Anyone with a political mind can easily see the tactical benefit of employing these rules – these tactics – against a political opponent. If executed with fidelity, they can hobble an opponent’s campaign and end his or her political career. This is not just a theory.

I have successfully implemented this strategy at the county level in the Florida Panhandle to great success. The result? A landslide victory for my candidate in an election with the largest voter turnout in county history and the ending of a corrupt incumbent’s political career.

The Democrats’ Conundrum

Examining the present situation at the federal level, it is clear we are facing the same situation. The conservative movement and the Republican Party must win by a landslide to thwart the Democrats' efforts at cheating. This means that if we want to retire possibly the most corrupt politician of our lifetimes – Joe Biden – and expunge the Marxists of Obama 2.0 from the federal level, we must have a gargantuan voter turnout and end corrupt careers.

To that end, Alinsky’s “Rule No. 4” is of paramount importance: Make the enemy live up to its own book of rules.

As of today, the Democrat Party has massaged their established rules at the state and federal levels to recover from their own defective planning and lack of foresight.

Nationally, they gerrymandered the schedule of state primaries to weight their results in favor of Joe Biden, disenfranchising every challenger who dared to stand up against the inside-the-beltway, Deep State apparatus.

First, by moving South Carolina to the second position, the party aimed to play the race card (as it always does), capitalizing on Biden’s perceived strong support among African American voters. This demographic makes up a significant portion of the state's electorate. This helped to give Biden an early momentum boost in the race.

Second, the party moved Georgia to the third position, which also has a significant African American population and where Biden won in the 2020 General Election. This move was intended to strengthen Biden's position in the South further and secure more delegates early on.

Additionally, the re-arrangement placed Michigan and Nevada in the fourth and fifth spots, respectively. Both states have target demographic populations (e.g., Blacks, Muslims, and transplanted illegal immigrants from the Southern Border), which are key demographics for Biden. By placing these states early in the primary schedule, the party aimed to solidify Biden's support among these groups and secure more delegates.

What Biden and his Obama 2.0 puppetmasters didn’t count on was the Black and Latino communities waking up to the lies of the Democrat Party through the extreme rhetoric used by the Biden/Obama 2.0 team. According to a recent University of Chicago poll, as reported by NPR (of all places):

“In 2020, 89% of Black voters aged 18-29 voted for Biden, as well as 78% of those aged 30-44. In the latest GenForward survey, just 33% said they would support him if the election were held today, and 23% chose Trump.

“Trump is beating Biden among young Latino voters by a four-point margin. It’s a significant drop in support for Biden compared to four years ago, when he won 69% of Latino voters under 30, and 62% of those 30-44.”

That left Biden stooge Jamie Harrison and the Democrat National Committee – in the wake of Biden’s disastrous debate and interview performances – scrambling to form a strategy to strong-arm the nomination in favor of Biden, not unlike how they cleaved the nomination in 2016 away from Sanders only to give it to Clinton.

The latest scheme in a long line of Democrat voter disenfranchisements comes in an attempt to nominate Joe Biden virtually before the delegates who were selected to the Democrat Convention have a chance to debate whether Biden’s cognitive decline warrants him being removed from nomination.

After outcries from Democrat potentates, the DNC has relented in its push for an accelerated virtual roll-call vote to confirm Biden’s nomination, but, as USA Today reports, there’s more to the story:

“Following outcries from President Joe Biden's Democratic detractors, the Democratic National Committee is now holding off on an accelerated virtual roll-call vote this month to confirm Biden as their presidential nominee.

“Yet Democrats are still sticking to a plan to virtually nominate Biden as their party's standard-bearer before Aug. 7, ahead of next month's Democratic National Convention, set for Aug. 19 to 22 in Chicago.

“The decision came after Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries both pushed the DNC to delay the nominating process, according to sources familiar with their outreach, as many congressional Democrats still hold concerns about Biden as the Democratic nominee.”

Applying Alinsky’s Rule No. 4

So, as Rahm Emanual let slip in an interview exposing Leftist tactics, conservatives and Republicans should let this exquisite crisis go to waste. In fact, this is the perfect time to implement Alinsky’s “Rule No. 4”: Make the Democrat Party live up to its own rules.

Any roll-call vote prior to the actual Democrat Convention in Chicago this August would literally disenfranchise the votes of millions of Democrat Primary Election voters, rendering them meaningless. For the political party that lectures the nation on the importance of “one person, one vote” and that falsely claims the mantle of “protector of democracy” and “fair elections for all,” making them publicly defend their position to nullify their party’s rank and files voters would be a scandal of unprecedented proportions realized.

Which leads to a few questions: Where are the attorneys of the conservative movement? Shouldn’t they be filing a litany of lawsuits on behalf of the disenfranchised Democrat voters seeing to force the DNC to have fidelity to their own party rules? They certainly should have been filing lawsuits when Ohio’s Democrats rearranged their election law to facilitate Biden’s inclusion on that state’s ballot in defiance of a well-known deadline.

As I have been saying for over 20 years. Conservatives and Republicans must use the Left’s playbook against their opponents, and the perfect place to start – today – is attacking the DNC, Biden, and Obama 2.0 with Alinsky Rule No. 4 and forcing them to live up to and adhere to their own established election processes.

Now, will the leaders of the conservative movement and the Republican Party finally listen? Or are their egos too far gone to utilize a strategy that has been proven to be effective?

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