Hey, Trumpsters . . . Why So Ragey? #DayOfRage

by Kim D.

Roger Stone GOP op specialist is planning a #DayofRage at #RNC2016 in #CLE ROLF #AllClownsMatter #InsaneClownCar https://t.co/j1EqLD0MXj

— edsdet (@edsdet) April 2, 2016

Let's go back in time to another period of American history where days of rage became the fashion. That would be October 1969 in Chicago, where Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) called for an end to the Vietnam War.  Bill Ayers and his communist Weatherman buddies prepared for a war with police.

The National Action had been planned a year earlier in Boulder, Colorado, where Jacobs had drafted the resolution. The title of the resolution was called, “The Elections Don’t Mean Sh-t—Vote Where the Power Is—Our Power Is In The Street.” 

Jacobs declared an “all-out civil war over Vietnam” and against “fascist U.S. imperialism.”What ensued was an organized riot, commenced on October 5, 1969 when the “flower children” dynamited the statue commemorating the Chicago police who had been killed in the 1886 Haymarket Riot. As far as the “students” were concerned, these men were not Chicago’s finest, not veterans of the police force and (in many cases) World War II, but jackbooted swine. The smashed glass and damage caused by the explosion was a fitting initiation to the tirade that followed, eventually ending in violent clashes with over 1,000 policemen. 

The day after the initial rampage, the student Reds were licking their wounds. Many were bruised and cut and beaten, or had spent a night in jail. Mayor Daley’s police won the battle, but it was not a total loss for the student revolutionaries. Roughly 30 “pigs” were injured and a city official was paralyzed.The National Action had become the Days of Rage. It was one of the ugliest nights in the history of Chicago.

Sounds lovely, right? Following the fashion of Alinsky-like tactics, it appears that Trump operative and supporter Roger Stone is calling for something similar in protest of what he believes will be a stolen GOP nomination.  To date, Donald Trump has received a plurality of votes and delegates but not the required majority. If Donald cannot seal the deal and legitimately win 1237 delegates during the primary season, there will be a contested convention this July in Cleveland.

Roger knows if the GOP primary is contested the outlook for his candidate is bleak. Donald Trump has captured roughly 38% of the GOP electorate. That support is very loyal; however, now that the race has narrowed, it will not give him the majority he seeks to win the GOP nomination. So, if your candidate cannot win fairly through hard work and smart campaign strategy, then resorting to bully tactics may be all you have left.

Roger Stone tells radio station that Trump supporters will know hotel rooms of delegates at convention. pic.twitter.com/ItPOL4QDhe

— Sopan Deb (@SopanDeb) April 5, 2016

More on Stone from Politico:

Stone, a Nixon acolyte and master of political dirty tricks, has claimed at various points that the political establishment is trying to steal the Republican nomination from Trump, with whom he formally parted ways last summer but remains an informal adviser of sorts. He's now vowing "days of rage" on the banks of Lake Erie if the Republican Party tries any funny business at the convention in Cleveland.

It appears the Trump campaign and supporters simply are continuing to play to their base and ignoring the real majority of Republican voters who have been repeatedly saying enough with the sleazy tactics. Enough with the attacks on women. Enough with the monikers, like Little Marco and Lyin' Ted. The celebrity campaign has shown that this is their strategy - not solid discussion and promotion of detailed and well thought out policy proposals. The planned Day of Rage may be the final nail in the Trump campaign's coffin and be actually a YUGE Day of Fail.