• Windex007@lemmy.worldEnglish
    29·
    6 months ago

    I mean, the TEA party just morphed into MAGA and then mainstream GOP.

    Didn’t die, just got a few new names.

    • ivanafterall@kbin.social
      9·
      6 months ago

      100%, although I think it was the other way around. GOP treated the Tea Party as a legitimate movement with ideas worth hearing/catering to. Before long, those same members found themselves either falling in line or challenged from the right in primaries. That group morphed into MAGA, which again was absorbed by the GOP as their new identity.

  • slickgoat@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    6 months ago

    The Tea Party was the prototype of what the GOP would become. The party believed that they could control the radicals for their own purposes. They should have stomped them down. Instead they ended up in a hostile takeover situation. Now the GOP politicians are terrified of being deselected in their own electorates so they must engage in theatrical MAGA performances.

    The Tea Party never went away, they evolved like a successful virus.