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[–] [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.