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It's a great tactic. Even the original Tea Party must have had such as a possible outcome (The Patriot colonists were no dummies, they must have known the kind of reaction the British would have had.). Sometimes protests are just to make a point, but sometimes they are very much to provoke an overreaction that will subsequently mobilize people who were on the fence.

Actually terrorism relies on the same principle, only writ large: now way can a few hundred people overthrow any but the smallest nation, but they can provoke an overreaction that causes the people to turn against the government or the government to retaliate in a way that causes it vast amounts of tamale WRT blood and treasure,

What the Trump administration is doing brilliantly is trying to keep the left from framing the discussion. Once the other side gets to choose the language and the frame of the debate, you have lost, no matter how good your logic or brilliant your operational strategy.

Fortunately, I'm pretty sure Bannon and others in the administration have read ‘Rules For Radicals’; and since we conservatives behave in the fact based real world pretty effectively the left has much more of a fight on its hands than it ever did in the GWB or Nixon administrations.