I remember those "grassroots" Tea Party protests from a decade back.

[DTomlinson]

Might we be seeing something similar?

[jimfields33]

1. I hope not. They successfully won in 2010 and 2014. No thank you.

[wryter2000]

2. Similar for sure

However with fewer people.

[Moostache]

3. This is 100% the same as the "tea Party"...astroturf to the core

there is no difference at all...the GOP lacks any kind of creativity to create a NEW AstroTurf campaign when the previous one essentially cost Obama the last 6 years in office with an obstructionist Congress hell bent on wasting time and running out the clock...

[brewens]

4. Most people don't remember how The Tea Baggers started. Those first couple weeks it was all

about the TARP bailouts and may have ended up with people marching on Wall Street. Then the big RW operators swooped and coopted it. Turned it into basically a new republican campaign brand. We had the Koch brothers, Dick Armey leading Freedomworks and Hannity and other FOX "News" promoting and hosting their rallies. That wasn't how it all started out.

[Bonhomme Richard]

5. They are fascist brownshirts to be...

brought out as needed.

[stillcool]

6. I think some of these states..

have relaxed their gun laws, paving the way for the added oomph of weapons in the state house. Behind the scenes, organizing is probably much of the same, but with added emphasis from Russia, and whoever.

[Brother Buzz]

7. I'm convinced they tapped into Sal Russo's world famous email list

Astroturf has a distinctive smell, and Sal Russo was the King of Astroturf.

And to think Russo started with a bank of Rolidexes way back when Reagan was a mere governor.

[Atticus]

8. Yes, and some of the same fascist mofos are again waiving guns and threatening

people. They are all white like me so they get videoed and interviewed instead of shot dead. When Trump urged Michigan Governor Whitmer to "negotiate" with the armed goons who invaded the state Capitol Building, she should have replied that, unlike Trump, she doesn't negotiate fe with TERRORISTS.