They’re borrowing the showing up outside offices and doing legislative contact from us,” said Brendan Steinhauser, who helped organize and train Tea Partyers as a staff member of FreedomWorks, a libertarian group in Washington. Many of the new groups are embracing as their bible “Indivisible,” a 27-page guide written by former congressional staff members that advises Tea Party-like tactics “to resist the Trump agenda.” Just as groups like FreedomWorks used Google maps to help expand local Tea Party groups, the website for the guide helps Trump resisters find Indivisible groups near them. In New York, they have mobbed the district offices of Senator Chuck Schumer, the Democrats’ leader, and even demonstrated outside his Brooklyn home. Advertisement Continue reading the main storyThere’s some circularity here: The Tea Party loudly borrowed from the left, using as its guide “Rules for Radicals,” by Saul Alinsky, considered the father of modern community organizing. Like many of the initial Tea Partyers, many of the resisters on the left say they had never been involved in politics.

Source: New York Times February 06, 2017 01:53 UTC