Alinsky on the Kennebec

(For those coming in late, Something Rotten in Maine and Hallowell Shakedown will provide a bit of context).

In 1971 a grouchy old radical named Saul Alinsky published Rules for Radicals.  Thirty-seven years later a gay Kenyan Muslim Communist took Alinsky's advice all the way to the White House.  Or so the story goes.  Alinsky has become one of the Rabi…