[blam]

"I think there was a massive change in the electorate and that change was broadly referred to as the Tea Party. But I don’t think an actual party existed. I am hard put to name a spokesman who had an office rented under the name Tea Party. I think this was a real grass roots movement. With the movement’s goals of electing somebody they thought could roll back years of liberalism possibly filled, the movement has gone dark. But like shoals in the path of ships, we are still there waiting for another low tide to reveal us again."

I understand all that.

The discontent was called The Tea Party and with much disdain by the MSM.

Didn't Trump assume the leadership of the disconteted.....The Tea Party people? The working, middle class?

[Gen.Blather]

“Didn’t Trump assume the leadership of the disconteted.....The Tea Party people? The working, middle class? “

I think the working class voted for Trump in record numbers, so, yes, he assumed the leadership.

[ichabod1]

Tea Party lacked a leader. It was co-opted with people like Marco Rubio running as true tea party conservatives. Mr. Trump provided leadership for the grass roots movement. He had to have considered it in 2012 and realized he wouldn’t be able to get there against osamabama, but early on he knew it would be Hillary and he knew she would be easy to beat. My gosh, he said it so many times.