Days of rage at the RNC
by digby
Trump’s confidant Roger Stone is the man with a plan:
On Bloomberg’s With All Due Respect Monday, Roger Stone, a former adviser to the Donald Trump campaign, discusses the state of the GOP front-runner’s campaign, the battle for delegates and the possibility of “days of rage” protests at this summer’s Republican National Convention in Cleveland.
“It entails enormous demonstration,” Stone said. “It could entail protests at certain targeted hotels where delegations who are involved in the ‘big steal’ are staying.”
“It will be non-violent,” Stone added. “It’s a reverse-Alinsky.”
Last week, Stone made a call for “non-violent” protests at the convention.
Stone has decades of dirty tricks under his belt and he’s destroyed a number of luminarie’s careers. And he knows how to make a “day of rage” happen:
The capstone of Stone’s career, at least in terms of results, was the “Brooks Brothers riot” of the 2000 election recount. This was when a Stone-led squad of pro-Bush protestors stormed the Miami-Dade County election board, stopping the recount and advancing then-Governor George W. Bush one step closer to the White House.
The protesters, you’ll recall, were all GOP congressional staffers. Stone directed the action from a command post down the street. It changed the course of history.
Maddow had a nice piece on right wing “protests” back in 2009:
Update: More on Stone here. Yikes.
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