TP died about 6 years ago
The Tea Party evolved into the Donald Trump phenomenon. Although not exactly their leader (I think by definition, the Tea Party never had a leader), Trump saw the populist backlash against the Democrats’ overreach and seized the opportunity to present himself as the guy who heard them.
We are watching the fruits of our labors during the 8 years of the Obama dark ages. If not for the Tea Party, the Republicans wouldn’t have recaptured the House, then the Senate, creating huge obstacles for Obama. Now Trump is completing what we started. It’s great to watch!
Of course, just because Trump won doesn’t mean we should get complacent (though the Tea Party, IMO, was the backbone of the massive turnout we saw and continue to see at Trump rallies and events).
Tea Party was as genuine grassroots movement that wasn’t beholden to a person or even a party. Remember, there were even some Republican elected officials who got an earful from the Tea Party, too.
When a corrupt government becomes unresponsive to the will of people and pushes too hard on issues that are close to home (like the way Obamacare had been made law), you will see an iteration of a tea party.
I think they got IRS’d to death.
Obama used the IRS as a political and police arm to destroy the opposition.
He should be held accountable.
Nor any promotion by the big talkers.
I haven’t heard any mention of the March 4 rallies by Hannety, Rush, Levin, Savage or anyone else.
Usually Sean is the first to jump in on things like this.
I’m sure a lot of people would show up if it was well publicized.
for obvious reasons, President Trump is now the defacto leader of the tea party. he hasn’t asked for that yet.
I think they got co-opted/bought up, by the GOPe.
The Tea Party was about small government. Even though we like some of the president’s policies, small government he’s not. Infrastructure bill comes to mind, not to mention his about-face yesterday on the dreamers. His plans are very far from the Tea Party.
They mostly became GOPe
A lot of those new precinct chairmen are Tea Partiers.
The knoch brothers hollowed out the teaparty quite some time ago.
Tea Party was not one thing or one organization. It was a general grass roots feeling that the establishment and entrenched interests in D.C. was not working on our best interest but in theirs. This feeling is what led, eventually, to a more populist movement for President, although who is president is less important than who is in Congress and what they are up to, and who is in charge of all the other establishment entities.
No. Ramp up to hold his feet to the fire and fulfill his promises.
The TP started off great guns, but as soon as Obama said, “Boo!”, it fell apart.
My belief is the TP is as strong as ever, though it has gone through its growing pains over the last decade.
It is an organization, if you can call it that, of people who are silently united. It does not hold rallies nor does it send out brochures in a conventional way. Only some variants collect donations, I know nothing about and make no statement about them. There is no leader per se. It exists as a subtle force in peoples’ minds, but is composed of people who generally have lives and are not available at the drop of a hat like BLM protestors to bus themselves cross country and block freeways, of all the damnable acts. Because part of the TP movement is the idea that government should not matter that much in the sense that government should be so limited in its impact that it should not require the 24/7 obsession with it. It should be OUT of our lives, not a giant existential tit we are constantly looking to suckle on for our every need.
Part of the emergence of the TP, IMO, is/was the silent yet simultaneous and widespread realization that while Communist and anti-US saboteurs have been active and plentiful within the US government since the 30’s and were pervasive in the late 40’s; never has the condition existed where great segments of the electorate were sufficiently bamboozled by the career criminality of folks like the Clintons and their compatriots. As well, never has there been such a pervasive oligarchy of elites and uber-wealthy now determined to generate the massive outflow of American wealth and to stand astride of and dip into those outflows. Never before have the initiatives of spiritual, economic, moral and military destruction of the US been so congealed all at once.
The TP saw all this, and now knows about it, and is committed to being vigilant about these various aspects. It just doesn’t make itself known with big noisy rallies.