A liberal activist group wants to organize mass boycotts of restaurants that allow members of Congress to eat if those members vote to dismantle Obamacare.

Scott Dworkin, an adviser to the Democratic Coalition Against Trump, said the organization is working on a boycott of any Washington, D.C., eatery that lets the offending members dine, if those members voted to repeal the Affordable Care Act.

“Aren’t these the same activists who insisted that Christian bakers and florists who object to same sex marriage on religious [grounds] should nevertheless be required to perform service against their will?”

“For fun we are working with DC restaurants & bars to ban Members of Congress who plan on repealing Obamacare,” Dworkin tweeted on Monday morning.

He followed up: “Restaurants who don’t ban Members will be boycotted by DC residents & close down. We’ve done it before — It worked.”

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In a subsequent tweet, Dworkin said he thinks D.C.’s overwhelming Democratic numbers could work against Republican congressional members who plan on a full repeal of Obamacare.

“I don’t think they realize DC is 93 percent Dem and there is no GOP restaurant that exists — except Hardee’s,” tweeted Dworkin.

Yet Obamacare is hardly a success story for small businesses, and some conservative pundits note that restaurants were particularly hard hit by the law.

“The Democrats’ boycott efforts are hypocritical considering that many of these D.C. restaurants are unable to hire their employees full-time because of the negative effects of Obamacare,” said Mercedes Schlapp, a Fox News contributor, in an email to LifeZette. “Keep the fight inside of Congress instead of trying to push these restaurants to not provide services to GOP members of Congress.”

There are recent cases when boycotts aimed at Republicans and President Trump went public, but widespread success is hard to prove.

In late December, according to The Hill, Anthony Bourdain, a television personality famous for his shows on food and travel, said he would never eat at establishments in President Donald Trump‘s Washington hotel.

Bourdain was asked by Eater magazine about chef Alessandro Borgognone bringing his sushi restaurant to the new Trump International Hotel.

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“I will never eat in his restaurant,” said Bourdain. “I have utter contempt for him, utter and complete contempt.”

In the D.C. neighborhood of Adams Morgan, a famous mural on a restaurant will not include Trump.

Mama Ayesha’s restaurant will not include Trump in the mural, which includes every president going back to Dwight D. Eisenhower.

“Our official position is that it is not in the budget,” said Amir Abu-El-Hawa, a member of the family that owns the restaurant, in a remark published by Washingtonian magazine.

Dworkin’s tweets were met with wide mockery by conservative critics.

“I’m sure all the members of Congress will never be able to find another bar at which to drink to excess,” tweeted conservative author Ben Shapiro.

Ben Gauthier raised a sharp and salient point about the latest boycott idea: “So how is this any different then a private business deciding who it wants to bake a cake for?”

The comparison to 2015’s drama over the fight between gay marriage proponents and religious bakers who may not want to make a wedding cake for two men was brought up by conservatives, who suggest Dworkin is being hypocritical.

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“Aren’t these the same activists who insisted that Christian bakers and florists who object to same-sex marriage on religious [grounds] should nevertheless be required to perform service against their will?” said Jenny Beth Martin, co-founder of the Tea Party Patriots, in an email to LifeZette. “So it’s okay to withhold service on political grounds and not on religious grounds?”

And banning a majority of members of Congress from D.C. restaurants is a sure way to anger lawmakers, who could easily make trouble for the District of Columbia and its businesses.

Congress has constitutional jurisdiction over the District. In fact, the District was established so that federal lawmakers and the president would be free to govern the nation while in a hospitable area.

But the Left has boycott fever because of President Trump’s ascension, and even had it long before they knew the election outcome on Nov. 8.

Sometimes the boycotts appear to anger and influence Trump’s supporters.

Macy’s dropped Trump’s clothing line after liberals objected to his presidential campaign, in the summer of 2015. Macy’s then began a steady decline, and took measures to cut costs. The retailer will close 68 stores and cut 10,000 jobs in 2017, according to CNNMoney.