I enjoyed this piece in politico.com on the use of Saul Alinsky’s Rules for Radicals.
Michael Avenatti, the lawyer for Stormy Daniels, is making things difficult for US President Trump and his lawyer.
You can watch him swatting Trump’s allies below.
The politico piece is worth reading.
https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2018/05/09/michael-avenattis-rules-for-radicals-218329
Alinsky’s Golden Rules
- “Power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinks you have.”
- “Never go outside the expertise of your people.”
- “Whenever possible go outside the expertise of the enemy.”
- “Make the enemy live up to its own book of rules.”
- “Ridicule is man’s most potent weapon.”
- “A good tactic is one your people enjoy.”
- “A tactic that drags on too long becomes a drag.”
- “Keep the pressure on.”
- “The threat is usually more terrifying than the thing itself.”
- “The major premise for tactics is the development of operations that will maintain a constant pressure upon the opposition.”
- “If you push a negative hard and deep enough it will break through into its counterside”
- “The price of a successful attack is a constructive alternative.”
- “Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it.”