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NEW: Deep State Plot To Stoke ‘Color Revolution’ Against Trump Is Revealed
Disgruntled current and former federal employees are teaming up to to unleash a “color revolution” against President Trump using the same tactics they have employed to sow distrust in overseas governments, according to a new report.
Former intelligence staffers with USAID and the State Department believe they can astroturf an uprising to overthrow Trump, hindering his ability to splinter their network even further. Many were laid off during the early months of his administration when the U.S. Department of Government Efficiency was largely unfettered in firing vast swaths of the federal bureaucracy.
The “future of democracy” is on the line, according to participants who spoke with NOTUS. They described launching workshops on “noncooperation” to cultivate a community that will engage in small rebellious acts and potentially a national strike. Some of the participants still work in the government today.
“Take it from those of us who worked in authoritarian countries: We’ve become one,” a current federal official told NOTUS. “They were so quick to disband AID, the group that supposedly instigates color revolutions. But they’ve done a very foolish thing. You just released a bunch of well-trained individuals into your population. If you kept our offices going and had us play solitaire in the office, it might have been safer to keep your regime.”
Others framed the effort as modeled after an old CIA tactic known as “Simple Sabotage” which was laid out decades ago in a pamphlet.
“Widespread practice of simple sabotage will harass and demoralize enemy administrators and police,” the pamphlet reads. “The saboteur may have to reverse his thinking … Where he formerly thought of keeping his tools sharp, he should now let them grow dull; surfaces that formerly were lubricated now should be sanded; normally diligent, he should now be lazy and careless; and so on.”
Since being fired by Trump, some of the former officials from the U.S. Agency for International Development have launched DemocracyAID, an organization dedicated to fomenting opposition to Trump’s dismantling of entities he perceives as hostile to his agenda.
Seminars by DemocracyAID teach organizers and students how to mobilize, with some of the classes describing simple tactics such as “letter writing: how to write op-eds to a local newspaper for a local story,” Danielle Reiff, a former USAID diplomat and founder of the group, said.
“The whole point of it is to start off slow. People are just taking coffee breaks together. And that’s what we’re encouraging them to do,” Ro Tucci, co-leader of DemocracyAID, told NOTUS.
Another participant, speaking anonymously, told the outlet that Americans are tired of the cliché comparisons of Trump to Hitler or his administration to Nazi Germany. In order to break through the cacophony of daily news, their messaging must get more creative, they explained.
“There’s only so many ways to do it. That’s why it’s almost cliché to the point where we ask, ‘What are we, Darth Vader? The Empire? The Nazis?’ The comparisons draw ridicule because people who don’t know enough about it don’t realize there aren’t too many ways to do it. So, the tactics to counter them will still work, and there’s way more ways to be creative,” the person said, according to the Daily Caller.