Are the tightly organized hordes of “protestors” suddenly emerging this month at Republican town halls schooled professionals or valid hometowners?
With the GOP controlling the leadership in a majority of states, plus owning majorities in both houses of Congress and the White House, does it make sense that Republican voters would be storming the gates?
Isn’t it wildly illogical that conservatives would be the purple-faced people shouting with fury against President Trump’s policies?
Or…
Could they really be hired-gun progressives, liberals or Democrats dressed up like Republicans to devilishly stir chaos, their main pastime since Nov. 8?
Answering the question affirmatively, author Paul Sperry, former fellow at the Hoover Institute, says the goal of the trained “protestors” is to force GOP legislators to reconsider support for the Trump agenda.
Spontaneous outbursts they are not.
He writes that every step is scripted.
“An Obama-tied activist group training tens of thousands of agitators to protest President Trump’s policies plans to hit Republican lawmakers supporting those policies even harder this week when the legislators return home for the congressional recess and hold town hall meetings.
“Organizing for Action, a group founded by former President Obama and featured prominently on his post-presidency website, www.BarackObama.com, is distributing a training manual to anti-Trump activists.
“It advises them to bully GOP lawmakers” on three subjects, repealing Obamacare, curbing immigration from high-risk Islamic countries and building a border wall.
The group is sprawling, too.
Organizing for Action has 250 offices across America, with 32,000 organizers. Another 25,000 are being trained.
Well-oiled, it seems.
Mr. Sperry asserts that the Obama-linked manual “advises protestors to go into halls quietly, so as not to raise alarms. Grab seats at the front of the room but do not all sit together. Rather, spread out in pairs to make it seem like the whole room opposes the Republican host’s positions.”
From the manual:
“This will reinforce the impression of broad consensus.
“Loudly boo the GOP politicians if they don’t give you real answers.”
After the town halls, they are directed to rush film to CNN and MSNBC, the main leftist networks, and hometown television stations.
Finally, the closely scripted pros are urged to flood the offices of Trump-friendly lawmakers with calls and emails demanding the firing of Steve Bannon, the president’s chief strategist.
All that is missing from the left’s latest deception is commercials.