Imagine, if you will, a party that advocates violence, anarchy, and assassination raising the alarm and voicing concern about MAGA violence after the election. No, you have not entered the Twilight Zone, but rather the Democrat Zone, a place even Rod Serling would fear to tread.
The Daily Beast released an article covering a two-hour meeting organized by Fight Back Table (FBT). Fifty-plus progressive groups attended the conference to fashion their response should Donald Trump contest a Joe Biden victory (which they feel is assured) in the November election. This would create, in their mind anyway, a “post-Election Day political apocalypse.”
Highlighting the event’s urgency, Rahna Epting, executive director of the progressive group MoveOn, said,
It is very obvious that Trump is laying the groundwork for claiming victory no matter what. Progressive groups, at the end of the day, believe in our democracy and, while it is not perfect, believe in building upon it and strengthening it. And we will fight to protect it from what we truly see as a president who has gone off the rails and taking this country down an authoritarian fascist path.
The talks centered around a 22-page document created by the Transition Integrity Project (TIP), a group co-founded by Georgetown University law professor Rosa Brooks, titled “Preventing a Disrupted Presidential Election and Transition.” The white paper summarizes four roleplaying exercises conducted by over 100 public officials: 1) a decisive Biden victory; 2) a slim Biden victory; 3) no clear winner; and 4) Trump loses the popular vote but wins in the electoral college.
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According to Brooks, “A landslide for Joe Biden resulted in a relatively orderly transfer of power. Every other scenario we looked at involved street-level violence and political crisis.”
With those possibilities in mind, the coalition nicknamed the event the “Democracy Defense Nerve Center” and began creating their action plan. Starting with “charting out what it would take to stand up a multi-state communications arm to fight disinformation, a training program for nonviolent civil disobedience, and the underpinnings of what one official described as ‘mass public unrest.’”
The discussions covered topics such as “how you occupy sh*t, hold space, and shut things down, not just on Election Day but for weeks,” and transportation options for closed polling locations.
One participant asked, “I don’t know what the strategy is when armed right-wing militia dudes show up in polling places. This [Kyle] Rittenhouse guy is being lionized on the right, right now. If it is being unleashed that you can shoot people and be a hero, I don’t know what preparation we can possibly do for that.” (Maybe they should ask Eric Holder, who dismissed the case against the New Black Panthers for voter intimidation.)
But mostly they talked about mass mobilization.
Maurice Mitchell, the national director of the Working Families Party, stated, “We are not the forces of organized capital. Ultimately, the thing we rely on is organizing people.”
“There are a lot of scary scenarios… We have to be prepared to mobilize in unprecedented ways,” said Sean Eldridge, a Democratic activist who is running Protect the Results, a left-wing group “building a coalition of voters ready to mobilize if Donald Trump refuses to accept the results of the 2020 presidential election.”
According to the Daily Beast article, a former top official at Planned Parenthood, Deirdre Schifeling, is the lead person at FBT for “gathering a coalition of groups planning on organizing mass mobilization in more than 1,000 locations across the country.”
The response offered by the FBT event could lead some people to the conclusion that the nearly 600 BLM and Antifa controlled riots that have spread across the United States over the last several months were really just a trial run for November, with those very same protestors becoming the “saviors” of American “democracy.”
Further ramping up the fear factor, the article reports:
The options that Team Trump had to use or misuse included manipulating classified information, selectively releasing “classified documents for political purposes, fueling manufactured rumors,” freezing “assets of individuals and groups the president determines to be a threat,” and restricting “internet communications in the name of national security.”
That was just the beginning. The report’s authors noted that Trump could also “rely on surrogates to embed operatives inside protests to encourage violent action” as well as “mobilize a range of law enforcement actors… who might, without proper training or if led by politicized actors, escalate matters.”
In some simulations, the Trump team “succeeded in invoking the Insurrection Act and sending active duty military troops into U.S. cities to ‘restore order,’ ‘protect’ voting places, or confiscate ‘fraudulent’ ballots.”
Sounds terrifying. Manufacturing fear of Trump and his support by the local police is but one way the Left is busy sabotaging this election. There have been numerous articles lately tying Trump with white supremacy and right-wing militias.
We have now moved into the Democrat Zone, where Left is right and right is wrong, with the potential for very catastrophic results.
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