Conservatives have for some time taken to quoting Saul Alinsky that would-be reformers should “[m]ake the enemy live up to its own book of rules.” Often the quote is deployed in tandem with frustration at how hard it is to do that when the hard left holds so many of the levers of power and expression, and has abandoned objectivity and fair play.
I suspect that Alinsky’s response to that, so long as he didn’t know that his addressee was not a leftist, would be to buck yourself us and get to work. The difficulty – and the skill – lies in trying to force the enemy to live up to its own rules when it’s trying very hard not to.
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