Right from the alinsky playbook - accuse the other side of the evil you are doing.
Truly. Just look at the Dems when they took over Congress in 2007. They went on a full court press to trash the economy to facilitate the election of a Democrat President. Pelosi nearly single handily caused a spike in the energy costs, and Schumer started a run on a couple financial institutions.
In the 1960s you could disagree with the Democrats and still understand that they loved their Country, but since they tasted the coup of removing Nixon from office, they love only power - the Nation be damned.