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Remember Occupy Wallstreet? The Tea Party? (lemmy.world)

submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 52 points 8 months ago (3 children)

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

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

[–] ArbitraryValue 15 points 8 months ago

Yes, I'd say it was extremely successful.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 8 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.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

The tea party was a well funded astroturf movement. “MAGA” didn’t just invent itself.