Editing Saul Alinsky (section)

=== Donald Trump as the "Alinsky president" ===
In 2016, [[Glenn Beck]] produced a four-part radio series to expose Alinsky's "vision for a Godless, centrally controlled utopia."<ref>{{Cite web |title=Saul Alinsky: The Four-Part Series - Glenn Beck |url=https://www.glennbeck.com/2016/08/20/saul-alinsky-the-four-part-series/ |access-date=2025-04-17 |website=www.glennbeck.com |language=en}}</ref> Yet he proposed that, in tactical terms, it was not Obama but his nemesis, then presidential candidate [[Donald Trump]], who "is Saul Alinsky": "[Trump] will isolate you and polarize you and he will take you out”.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Hensch |first=Mark |date=2015-12-01 |title=Glenn Beck on Trump: He is Saul Alinsky |url=https://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/presidential-races/261692-glenn-beck-on-trump-he-is-saul-alinsky/ |archive-url=http://web.archive.org/web/20241121032241/https://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/presidential-races/261692-glenn-beck-on-trump-he-is-saul-alinsky/ |archive-date=2024-11-21 |access-date=2025-04-17 |work=The Hill |language=en-US}}</ref> The same argument has been advanced by ''[[The Wall Street Journal|Wall Street Journal]]'' editor [[James Taranto]]: it is Trump, not Obama, who has proved to be the "Alinsky President". Both in his (2015-2016) campaign and, subsequently, in using the "bully pulpit of the presidency", Trump followed "a lot of Alinsky's rules".<ref>{{Cite web |title=Opinion Journal: The Alinsky Presidency |url=https://www.wsj.com/video/opinion-journal-the-alinsky-presidency/AD2F5258-D953-4CA7-B328-3FA3D6DD2A5E?mod=googlewsj |access-date=2025-05-05 |website=WSJ |language=en-US}}</ref> 

In the wake of the January 6, 2021 [[January 6 United States Capitol attack|assault the U.S. Capitol]] (and of the descent of [[Canada convoy protest|vaccine-mandate protesting truckers]] upon the Canadian capital, [[Ottawa]], in February 2022), ''[[Politico]]'' credited President Trump's "hard-ball ways" with schooling a new generation of right-wing activists in the delivery of "Alinskyesque shock blows to the system.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Shafer |first=Jack |date=2022-02-08 |title=Opinion {{!}} How the Right Learned to Love Saul Alinsky |url=https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2022/02/08/right-saul-alinsky-canada-truckers-00006903 |access-date=2025-04-17 |website=POLITICO |language=en}}</ref>