How the Right Learned to Love Saul Alinsky

 https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2022/02/08/right-saul-alinsky-canada-truckers-00006903

For conservatives of any stripe to suddenly embrace protesters who blockade roads and deface monuments marks a dramatic flip for a movement that waxed apoplectic about BLM and Antifa demonstrations but now cheer as their team has started working from the occupation script. Republicans and other conservatives once defended the nation’s institutions reflexively. But for some of them, that fealty has gone to vapor. Your rank-and-file GOP member may not be trying on his riot uniform of football helmet, camo gear, and rollerblade knee-and-elbow guards in front of his bedroom mirror, but it’s easy to imagine potential recruits to this nascent movement visualizing themselves in full, violent grievance mode.