Clean or Extra Dirty?
Should the Right fight as dirty as the Left? Professor Douglas comments.
I think political tactics and rhetoric – short of actual criminality or other harmful conduct (defamation) – should be as rough as the occasion reasonably requires. After all, our values as political tacticians are not necessarily our values as political thinkers.
To the Left, the personal is political and vice versa, so every realm of human activity and every aspect of humanity can be and is politicized. That means that they can come at you from everywhere and when you least expect it. On the Right, we should at least be willing to fight on those terms and to use Alinksy’s Rules against the Left in the measure that we can.
