Countering the bizarre world of Trump: Transforming conflict from destructive to constructive and productive with Consensus processes

There are two related categories of consensus process: consensus decision-making and consensus organizing. The consensus organizing is named for the inclusive, non-adversarial style of community organizing, and for the drastically flattened hierarchy in any group of participants, organizers, and deciders. It seeks a very big tent of participants, driven by the parties with the greatest vulnerabilities and needs, but organized so that oppositional factions are minimized. 

Consensus organizing can affect the spectrum of allies--that is, the various parties in any civil society struggle. This work is done using organizing styles that may or may not create an unstoppable mass movement, but the tactics are meant to have a net recruiting gain and to move all sectors slightly toward the goal. Organizing without villainizing any other sectors can reduce the resolution toward combat to which the most ardent supporters of Trump respond. Organizing with hope and promise can prompt heretofore inactive but sympathetic groups to become at least slightly active. In other words, organize to attempt to move everyone even a small step toward making the goal manifest is the spectrum of allies approach and that requires the most skilled consensus organizing.