The Leftist playbook
Rules for Radicals
Aside from Saul Alinsky’s1 Rules for Radicals, the Left has a playbook for revolution. It’s called Color Revolution. Here’s the general recipe, according to American Thinker.
A“color revolution” ... is a modern form of orchestrated political upheaval designed to replace an existing government without traditional military invasion or civil war ... These operations follow a remarkably consistent playbook, refined over two decades by Western NGOs, intelligence-linked foundations, and State Department-affiliated entities (Open Society Foundations, USAID, etc.).
Authors describe seven stages of a color revolution. The stages include these tactics, which I’ll list in approximate chronological order:
Portray the target government as illegitimate, authoritarian, corrupt, or “fascist.”
Front-load allegations: accuse incumbent of planning the crimes the opposition intends to commit (rigging, regression, dictatorship).
Fund and train NGOs, student groups, and opposition politicians to repeat a unified message.
Create/amplify a unifying symbol or theme (e.g., Orange Man Bad).
Manufacture an electoral crisis.
Street mobilization.
Public appeals to and moral blackmail of the military and police: “You’re with the people, not the regime.”
Promises of immunity, future positions for defectors.
Threats to those who support target government.
Provoke a response, flood media with images of “peaceful protesters” being attacked.
International legitimation as foreign governments and media recognizes opposition leaders as “legitimate” authority.
Sanctions, frozen assets, diplomatic isolation applied to sitting government.
New elections scheduled under international supervision.
This is obviously what’s going on now in Minneapolis. It’s what has already happened in Seattle and Portland, which are now enemy-held territory. (Seattle 1999 anti-WTO riots.)
Those aren’t protesters out there attacking Federal law enforcement officers. They’re Leftist revolutionaries. And they are traveling from all over the country to do so.
Leftists organize. It’s what they do. They plot. They plan. They raise funds. They hold training sessions. They deliver supplies. (You don’t think all those professionally printed signs and pallets of bricks just magically appeared at Leftist planned events, do you?) They deliver crowds. (Dozens of charter coaches don’t just happen to show up at Leftist events.) They have their own communications networks. (Anybody else remember Journo-List?) They have medics and lawyers on standby. And they always, always have the media in their pocket.
Propaganda works. Terrorism is violence as political theater. Protests become violent in order to generate a response from the lawful authorities. You, the people watching and reading the news, are the true targets of all this violence and chaos.
Yes, Hillary Clinton really did work for him when she was young. Yes, she really wrote her college thesis on implementing his models for revolution.