Trump Protestors Professional Patsies

How Orwellian can you get?

Organizing for Action, a group founded by former President Barack Obama and featured prominently on his new post-presidency website, is distributing a training manual to anti-Trump activists that advises them to bully GOP lawmakers into backing off support for repealing ObamaCare, curbing immigration from high-risk Islamic nations and building a border wall.

The manual, published with OFA partner "Indivisible," advises protesters to go into halls quietly so as not to raise alarms, and "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. "This will help reinforce the impression of broad consensus." It also urges them to ask "hostile" questions--while keeping "a firm hold on the mic"--and loudly boo the GOP politician if he isn't "giving you real answers." "Express your concern [to the event's hosts] they are giving a platform to pro-Trump authoritarianism, racism, and corruption," it says. The goal is to make Republicans, even from safe districts, second-guess their support for the Trump agenda, and to prime "the ground for the 2018 midterms when Democrats retake power." "Even the safest [Republican] will be deeply alarmed by signs of organized opposition," the document states, "because these actions create the impression that they're not connected to their district and not listening to their constituents." After the event, protesters are advised to feed video footage to local and national media. "Unfavorable exchanges caught on video can be devastating" for Republican lawmakers, it says, when "shared through social media and picked up by local and national media." After protesters gave MSNBC, CNN and the networks footage of their dust-up with Chaffetz, for example, the outlets ran them continuously, forcing Chaffetz to issue statements defending himself. The manual also advises protesters to flood "Trump-friendly" lawmakers' Hill offices with angry phone calls and emails demanding the resignation of top White House adviser Steve Bannon. A script advises callers to complain: "I'm honestly scared that a known racist and anti-Semite will be working just feet from the Oval Office ... It is everyone's business if a man who promoted white supremacy is serving as an adviser to the president."

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Does any of this sound familiar? Isn't this exactly what happened?

OFA, which is run by ex-Obama officials and staffers, plans to stage 400 rallies across 42 states this year to attack Trump and Republicans over ObamaCare's repeal. OFA boasts more than 250 offices nationwide and more than 32,000 organizers, with another 25,000 actively under training. Since November, it's beefed up staff and fundraising, though as a "social welfare" nonprofit, it does not have to reveal its donors. These aren't typical Black Lives Matter or Occupy Wall Street marchers, but rather professionally trained organizers who go through a six-week training program similar to the training--steeped in Alinsky agitation tactics--Obama received in Chicago when he was a community organizer. Chicago socialist Saul Alinsky, known by the left as "the father of community organizing," taught radicals to "rub raw the sores of discontent" and create the conditions for a "revolution." He dedicated his book, "Rules for Radicals," to "Lucifer." Michelle Obama quoted from the book when she helped launch OFA in 2013. Obama appears to be behind the anti-Trump protests. He praised recent demonstrations against Trump's travel ban. And last year, after Trump's upset victory, he personally rallied OFA troops to "protect" his legacy in a conference call. "Now is the time for some organizing," he said. "So don't mope" over the election results. He promised OFA activists he would soon join them in the fray. "Understand that I'm going to be constrained in what I do with all of you until I am again a private citizen, but that's not so far off," he said. "You're going to see me early next year, and we're going to be in a position where we can start cooking up all kinds of great stuff." Added the ex-president: "I promise you that next year Michelle and I are going to be right there with you, and the clouds are going to start parting, and we're going to be busy. I've got all kinds of thoughts and ideas about it, but this isn't the best time to share them. Point is, I'm still fired up and ready to go, and I hope that all of you are, as well."

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