IOW: The Koch brothers, Rupert Murdoch and the BFEE and deluding these poor TEA Party saps into "voting against their own best interests."
What about rich plantation owners (read: democrats) manipulating the average Joe, Johnny Reb to secede c. 1860?
What about the academics, media, etc (read: democrats) fanning the flames of anti-Americanism in the "Cultural Revolution" of the 1960's?