The Weather Underground took over the Democratic Party, and they got their Trojan Horse, Obama, into the White House.
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/929392/posts
Above is an old thread that I would reference a lot during the Obama years. It is a long booklet written in the late 1930’s about FDR and the New Deal, titled “The Revolution Was”.
Regarding your comment it is quite specific. Sorry for the long excerpt, but it is ALL so good and informative):
There was a prodigious literature of revolutionary thought concealed only by the respectability of its dress....
To the revolutionary this same dreary stuff was the most exciting reading in the world. It was knowledge that gave him a sense of power. One who mastered the subject to the point of excellence could be fairly sure of a livelihood by teaching and writing, that is, by imparting it to others, and meanwhile dream of passing at a single leap from this mean obscurity to the prestige of one who assists in the manipulation of great happenings; while one who mastered it to the point of genius that one might dream of becoming himself the next Lenin....
Which of these brilliant young men in spectacles was of the cult and which was of the cabal if there was a cabal one never knew. Indeed, it was possible that they were not sure of it among themselves, a time having come when some were only playing with the thought of extremes while others were in deadly earnest, all making the same sounds. This was the beginning of mask and guise....
This revolutionary elite was nothing you could define as a party....There was no plan to begin with. But there was a shibboleth that united them all: “Capitalism is finished.”...
The prestige of the elite was natural for many reasons; but it rested also upon one practical consideration. When the opportunity came a Gracchus would be needed. The elite could produce one. And that was something the Communist Party could not hope to do.