A group called the “Democratic Coalition” says its organizing Washington, DC restaurants into a “boycott” against Republican lawmakers who vote to repeal the Affordable Care Act.
Restaurants who refuse to ban members will be themselves boycotted, according to the group’s senior adviser, claiming that the group has launched effective boycotts before.
The theory is that the vast majority of DC restaurants are owned by left-leaning individuals, so Members of Congress will be without a place to eat if they fail to follow the group’s demands.
Aside from Comet Ping-Pong pizzeria, which got caught up in conspiracy theories that swirled around players in the last election, few DC restaurants seem to take political stands.
One famous restaurant, Mama Ayesha’s, says they won’t put Donald Trump in their famous Presidential mural, but made no comment on whether they’d serve him a meal. TV personality and chef Anthony Bourdain has a one-man boycott of the Trump hotel’s DC restaurant in effect.
The DC outlet of chain Italian restaurant Maggianos, which unintentionally hosted a gathering of white supremacists, faced a boycott, but the company quickly distanced itself form the event, saying they booked it without knowing who made the reservation.
A national boycott against retailers who sell Trump branded products, which Democratic Coalition claims to have masterminded and provided an app for, has been mostly unsuccessful. While a few Internet retailers have dropped Ivanka Trump’s clothing and her father’s home furnishings line, most major retailers, like Nordstrom and Sears, still carry the brands.
