How does it feel to have your rear ends kicked, politically speaking, these days?? ;-)
If I were them, I would see that the Astroturf, while it worked solo, a bunch of people in Joker tee shirts humping up and down with store bought signs just looks hokey.
Rules for radicals, failure mode -- Saul Alinksy didn't allow for opposition protesters, he saw the field all to his AstroTurfers.