A left-punching guide for leftists

Ten rhetorical tips for destroying an entire politics.

1.

Voice broad-brush, completely unqualified criticism of “the left”. Most people will read this literally, as a straightforward attack on the entire left project. Other people will read an implicit “not me, though” or “present company excluded” into it; but by leaving that unsaid, you’ll teach them to dissociate with “the left” and everyone who identifi…