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    6 hours ago

    even with astroturfing

    That’s basically the point though, right? Without astroturfing the tea party probably wouldn’t have grown into maga. Compare the occupy wall st movement (as mentioned below)-- there was no corporate backing so it fizzled as soon as popular support couldn’t sustain it. But money kept pumping into the tea party and it eventually metastasized into maga.