good grief, trying to scare farmers doesn't work as well as scaring city dwellers. They are not even intimidated by oil companies. He doesn't understand that the northern plains brand of republicanism is the libertarian subspecies and not the fundamentalist bedwetter teabag type for the most part. Trying to scare the women and children is more likely to get him escorted out rather quickly.
They lived with missile silos scattered all over that would have been a juicy pre-emptive strike target by actual bad guys, but now they are supposed to be afraid of turbanized bad guys interrupting the fracking that is going on? Most farmers would welcome the oil companies getting harassed, they are not native and suspicion of ALL strangers is ingrained.
It is like his strategy is arranged by special agreement with Stephen Colbert.