Newt’s anti-elitism is so much what Alinsky really was about,” Alinsky biographer Sanford D. Horwitt told me Sunday. “Alinsky was about organizing ordinary people so they could get a seat at the table rather than getting crumbs or no crumbs at all when public policies were decided,” said Horwitt, the author of Let Them Call Me Rebel: Saul Alinsky: His Life and Legacy.
