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.
I mean, the TEA party just morphed into MAGA and then mainstream GOP.
Didn’t die, just got a few new names.
Yes, I’d say it was extremely successful.
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.
The tea party was a well funded astroturf movement. “MAGA” didn’t just invent itself.