This whips up the old rage in me. We were primed for Trumpism years before.

How The ACORN Scandal Seeded Today’s Nightmare Politics
Breitbart led the charge, but Democrats delivered the killing blow. Has anyone really learned?
By Zach Carter and Arthur Delaney

ACORN had survived for more than 40 years. Its sudden collapse was a defining moment in 21st century American politics. The explosive cocktail of racism, dishonesty, incompetence and cowardice that brought down the organization reveals as much about Washington Democrats as it does about the conservative movement. It marked the Republican Party’s full transition from the coded winks and nods of Richard Nixon’s “Southern strategy” to the bellicose white nativism that defines Donald Trump, and it exposed a Democratic Party establishment unprepared for dirty tricks in the Digital Age and unwilling to defend many of the black voters and activists it claimed to represent.