Some of them like that Sibelius woman are just flat out insane ~ if she weren't in office she'd be picked up on the streets for observation.
Commies are not 10 foot tall either.
You make good points. For clarification, I’m not saying the Alinsky-Piven-Axelrod contingent are as competent as they think themselves. But I wouldn’t put it past them to have fake scapegoats and all sorts of activists on standby, ready to trigger some calculated event but meanwhile oblivious to the inevitability that their plots are all destined to sputter and collapse in the face of what is ultimately a deficit of intellect on their part.