I purposefully avoided getting into that because some people out there can't seem to accept that it's not one or the other that caused the Tea Party to go underground, but both. My point is that in order to be effective, the Tea Party needs to get back out in the streets and get loud. Getting into an argument over semantics, which we're so good at here on FReep, is counterproductive.
Scouts Out! Cavalry Ho!
No prob, I was just pointing out the obvious: Bambi used the organs of the state and the media to neutralize the TEA party, there was no “whatever reason” to it, they did what all good totalitarians do, they took out their opposition and did not allow it free voice.