It’s a go-to tactic of the left: focus all your energy on one target and destroy it.
It’s about the concentration of force. You pick a powerful target, destroy it, and move on to the next, and the next, and the next. Saul Alinsky’s Rules for Radicals frames the strategy.
RULE 12: Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it.” Cut off the support network and isolate the target from sympathy. Go after people and not institutions; people hurt faster than institutions. (This is cruel but very effective. Direct, personalized criticism and ridicule works.)
Make it personal. Make it hurt a particular person. Ideas don’t feel the pain, but a person can get rattled and back off. That is the point of the strategy.
The left tried this with Trump, and it didn’t work, but that doesn’t mean it isn’t a powerful strategy. It’s just that Trump is sui…
