The Tea party was formed in 94 when the debt was $4 trillion dollars!!!
Now we are paying more in interest than we spend on defense. My my my………
The warning then was that level of spending was unsustainable. Yet 30 years and $36T later, it's still going.
That's not to say that we shouldn't be concerned, but that no one really knows how or when this will end. But, we know that it will end badly.
The last chanced to save the republic from the debt bomb was with Perot in 92. He ran on debt and free trade, the very same problems dominating today. Nothing fixed. These current parties hate America.