When This Blows Over

Newly released video clips of Democratic operatives
describing their own attempts to provoke violence at
Trump rallies, their sub-rosa coordination with the Hillary
Clinton campaign, and their active consideration of voter
fraud schemes, are ugly but not surprising.
Rather than try to adjudicate the factual underpinnings or
the journalistic rights and wrongs of this story, I’m going
to focus on Robert Creamer’s background. Creamer has
already made news by “stepping back” from the Clinton
campaign in response to the videos. So at this point, it’s
fair to comment on his background.
Creamer is a longtime Alinskyite activist and a leader in
Obama’s old community organizing network. Creamer
was a key figure in the work of Chicago’s community
organizer training center, the Midwest Academy, to which
Obama had close ties. I write extensively about the
hard-left ideology and hardball tactics of the Midwest
Academy, and Creamer’s role at the center of it all, in my
political biography of President Obama, Radical-in-Chief
(see Chapter 5, esp. 144-45; 186-88). The Midwest
Academy was founded by die-hard socialists who had
once been part of the radical ‘60s SDS (Students for a
Democratic Society).