Dispatches from Chicago

These insults, far from achieving their intended effect, only highlighted the shortcomings of their tactics.

As they turn their rage on their new target – Harris – a darling of progressive politics whom they have coined #KillerKamala, they seem to have lost the war to win hearts and minds.

Over the course of just about four hours, agitators weaponized the proven tactics and strategies of street warfare that the Soviets pioneered, even deploying tricks from a modern-day digital “toolkit” and leveraging a media presence that was larger than its about 100 revolutionaries.

We must pay close attention to the details of the Chicago revolutionaries.

This isn’t a battle between “progressives” and centrists within the Democratic Party. Instead, these protests are the product of a deeply coordinated effort by an alliance of three units who represent an insidious dynamic coined malign foreign influence.