Should GOP worry about Town Hall Protests?

There are two separate trains of thought on the issue of Town Hall Meeting protests:

• That this is an organic movement, similar to the Tea Party movement that propelled the GOP to massive mid-term gains. 
• That this is a top down organized set of planned events, possibly including out of town or even paid protesters. 

My sense of the truth here is that it's a little bit of both. These protests are made up of truly angry liberals being organized by top down planning that likely includes out of town (but not paid) protesters. 

It's like the Tea Party in terms of the fact that it seems driven by the same sort of anger you saw with the Tea Party followers. It's different in the sense that the current anger from the left seems more abrupt and personal, whereas the Tea Party movement seemed as if it slowly grew as an overall reaction to events and policy. In other words, I don't believe that different actions from Donald Trump and the GOP would have avoided any of this, whereas different actions from Obama and the Democrats could have avoided the Tea Party revolution. 

But either way, the question becomes: are these "protests" actually doing more good than harm?

The Tea Party had a message and a reasonable manner in which they expressed it. Largely it was a tangible reaction to both the Obamacare plan, and the means in which it was passed. More philosophically, it was about scaling back an overbearing Government that obviously wanted to take more ownership over the individual's rights to live their lives.

The current movement basically stems from the fact that Donald Trump actually won the election, and is pushed further by the obsessive claims that the "Russians hacked" our election in order to garner a Trump win.  

To me, I see a stronger correlation between the current anger and the similar anger after the 2000 elections than I do between the current anger and the Tea Party movement. Both Clinton and Gore seemingly had the rug pulled out from underneath their prospective Presidencies. Both Trump and Bush were accused of "stealing" the election. The "not my President" mantra of 2017 is much like it was in 2001. In both situations we endured the excessive moaning from the liberal elitist that much better qualified liberal Democratic candidates were unfairly caste aside in favor of horribly unqualified Republicans. 

There is a long ways to go between now and the 2018 election, which strategically sets up about as poorly as it could for the Democrats. If we take the lessons from the 2002 election (where the GOP won seats in both the House and the Senate)... it would be that anything can happen, and post election anger is not a good indication that you will have a successful midterm election.