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  • Donald Trump, Thomas Massie, and the Long, Slow Death of the Tea Party

    05/19/2026 6:44:54 AM PDT · by GrootheWanderer · 138 replies
    Reason ^ | May 18,2026 | Nick Gillespie
    But if Massie loses, it's not just the end of his career. (He told Mangu-Ward that if GOP primary voters send him packing, he's going back to his plow and "nobody will ever hear from me again"). It would also effectively be the end of what used to be called the Tea Party, a loose conglomeration of Republican representatives and senators who rode a wave of anti-Barack Obama and anti-George W. Bush sentiment to office in the early 2010s. Although some said that the tea in Tea Party stood for the "taxed-enough already," the rallying cry of the early Tea...