We know of one genuine and effective Alinskyite provocateur on the American scene today. Andrew Breitbart is his name, and "taking down the institutional left" is his game. As we noted last July, Breitbart "has no authority, only the inexpensive integrity of a rascal who is honest about what he is." If you've read "Rules for Radicals," you know that description also fit Alinsky to a T.

"The basic tactic in warfare against the Haves is a mass political jujitsu," Alinsky wrote:


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The Have-Nots do not rigidly oppose the Haves, but yield in such planned and skilled ways that the superior strength of the Haves becomes their own undoing. For example, since the Haves publicly pose as the custodians of responsibility, morality, law, and justice (which are frequently strangers to each other), they can be constantly pushed to live up to their own book of morality
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A great example, which we noted earlier this month, is the way Breitbart shamed the left-wing corporation Common Cause by publishing a video depicting participants in a Common Cause rally calling for the assassination of Supreme Court justices and others.

Speaking of which, do you remember the middle-aged white man with the mustache who said that Justice Clarence Thomas should be put "back in the fields," that Justice Samuel Alito "should go back to Sicily," and that Fox News chief Roger Ailes "should be strung up and--but, ah, I don't know. Kill the bastard"? Breitbart has now identified him as Don Wallace, a former president of a public-sector union, the United Firefighters of Los Angeles.