I’m not reading any Politico tripe, but this statement is absolutely accurate:
“...the spontaneous uprising that shook official Washington degenerated into a form of pyramid scheme that transferred tens of millions of dollars from rural, poorer Southerners and Midwesterners to bicoastal political operatives. “
You can add in groups like “Oath Keepers” in there as well.
And the kicker is that it’s the right’s own damn fault. Our general laziness when it comes to activism made it easy for people over here to just instead foist money to whatever group had any type of word like freedom, liberty, constitution, minuteman, and tea party in their name or made the usual pitch about “christian values” and “founding fathers”, after they all but promised they would do the hard work so that you wouldn’t have to give up your free time to defend your liberty.
What these groups did, because many of them had no idea what they were doing, consisted of making sure they got a good salary from the donations, and then paid lobbyists to supposedly make magic happen in DC.
The donator got a monthly “newsletter” detailing how the “fight is on” but “dark forces continue to battle”, and they need just a bit more money to make the final push.
Rinse and repeat until the executive boards of these groups are all very wealthy, have shown no real results, and have all moved on to consulting jobs. Likely to teach others how to run the same scam.
The tea party groups are now all shells, run by nobodies, and are completely broke because no one believes in them anymore.
Well said.
Someone once said - A republic IF YOU CAN KEEP it.
Lazy and stupid is the way to Socialism. It is unfortunate that the current crop of posters on this site, for the most part can be classified as LOW INFORMATION. The hope is that they will become educated and VOTE OFTEN in the PRIMARIES.
The next interesting primary is Arizona - Any bets on who wins??