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Remember Occupy Wallstreet? The Tea Party? (lemmy.world)
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[–] Windex007@lemmy.world 52 points 6 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@sh.itjust.works 15 points 6 months ago

Yes, I'd say it was extremely successful.

[–] ivanafterall@kbin.social 12 points 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.

[–] Beetschnapps@lemmy.world 9 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

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