Could they put bollards up ? Or other obstacles like litter bins or street lights in the way ? <| sep |> Are a collection of nonprofits funded by George Soros attempting to hire organizers to channel existing antiTrump sentiment into effective , direct action ? Sure . Are a significant number of the protestors at any given protest paid ? This seems incredibly unlikely . Are any of the protestors there just for the money , but are actually personally ambivalent towards or even pro Trump ? This is also very unlikely . Given these last two points , I ' d say he is not behind the protests . Essentially , I feel George Soros ' s role has been greatly exaggerated . Further , I also don ' t think hiring paid organizers is out of line or evidence of evil . If you are a billionaire who believes that the world should have feature X , and people out genuinely want to create feature X but are disinclined to individually do so because it requires personal financial cost e . g . giving up work shifts to work on X , it does not seem diabolical to pay them to find ways to bring about X . In this case , X happens to be ' no climate change ' or ' keeping DACA students in the U . S . ' or ' not blocking Muslim immigration ', or whatever . Regarding my second sentence My impression perhaps mistaken is that the people on TheDonald do not genuinely believe that the Austin bus thing was literally busses full of protestors , but are instead posting these stories to call into questiondelegitimize antiTrump sentiment . It ' s like when the referee incorrectly calls someone on the other team ' out ' you cheer just the same , even if the call is bullshit . Same deal with the whole Pedophile ' code words ' thing . I ' ve always thought of TheDonald as fairly intelligent group of people , so I ' m assuming that the vast majority don ' t actually believe this . Note Obviously if you believe X for Soros is ' empower members of my secret plutocratic pedophile power structure ', then paying protestors to advance this cause is evil