In a way, Trump was right.There was a conspiracy unfolding behind the scenes, one that both curtailed the protests and coordinated the resistance from CEOs. Both surprises were the result of an informal alliance between left-wing activists and business titans. The pact was formalized in a terse, little-noticed joint statement of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and AFL-CIO published on Election Day. Both sides would come to see it as a sort of implicit bargain–inspired by the summer’s massive, sometimes destructive racial-justice protests–
Their work touched every aspect of the election. They got states to change voting systems and laws and helped secure hundreds of millions in public and private funding. They fended off voter-suppression lawsuits, recruited armies of poll workers and got millions of people to vote by mail for the first time. They successfully pressured social media companies to take a harder line against disinformation and used data-driven strategies to fight viral smears...
Sometime in the fall of 2019, Mike Podhorzer became convinced the election was headed for disaster–and determined to protect it. This was not his usual purview. For nearly a quarter-century, Podhorzer, senior adviser to the president of the AFL-CIO, the nation’s largest union federation, has marshaled the latest tactics and data to help its favored candidates win elections.. A group of liberal strategists he brought together in the early 2000s led to the creation of the Analyst Institute, a secretive firm that applies scientific methods to political campaigns..
Podhorzer began working from his laptop at his kitchen table, holding back-to-back Zoom meetings for hours a day with his network of contacts across the progressive universe: the labor movement; the institutional left, like Planned Parenthood and Greenpeace; resistance groups like Indivisible and MoveOn; progressive data geeks and strategists, representatives of donors...state-level grassroots organizers, racial-justice activists..
https://time.com/5936036/secret-2020-election-campaign/
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Indivisible, partly funded by George Soros, was working with Iranian front groups in late 2019 and early 2020 to block Trump's ability to take military action against Iran. Supporting them in this effort was Dissenters, a group whose leadership was being trained by Weather Underground terrorist Bill Ayers. Ayers posted a blog on this citing his Chicom associate Mike Klonsky where he praised Ro Khanna, Barbara Lee, and Bernie Sanders staff member Warren Gunnels for their actions in support of Iran. Ayers and Klonsky and their associate Carl Davidson are all linked to the Committees of Correspondence for Democracy and Socialism, an offshoot of the original CP which held a meeting last summer on how to take over the Democratic Party through left-wing members of Congress and the Biden campaign.