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The Tea Party was the prototype of what the GOP would become. The party believed that they could control the radicals for their own purposes. They should have stomped them down. Instead they ended up in a hostile takeover situation. Now the GOP politicians are terrified of being deselected in their own electorates so they must engage in theatrical MAGA performances.
The Tea Party never went away, they evolved like a successful virus.
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.
The tea party was a well funded astroturf movement. “MAGA” didn’t just invent itself.
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 is just rebranded they never went away.
Occupy faced overwhelming media bias against it. A good chunk of major cities passed anti-protest laws that curbed it.
The Tea Party was an astroturfed “movement” funded by the Koch brothers that resulted in officials being elected. The overall goal was to bring the US further right and that was accomplished so they stopped funding it.
Don’t forget the lower court judge appointments and the current supreme court as well.
It didn’t help that occupy would clear out homeless before their protests instead of standing with them
How do you mean cleared out ?
I’ve heard about protesters kicking homeless out of the park they were going to protest in, though now that I’m looking for evidence i think the person I heard that from was wrong or misremembered details. I’ll be removing that comment so I don’t also spread that misinformation.
It’s amazing that they’re conflating these two things.
Occupy was smothered from within via the use of ops, change my mind. It was one of the very few popular movements that got really close to the true crux of the issues in society, and right after it failed we got inundated with extremist identity politics tearing a potential class struggle apart.
Occupy fizzled due to it’s own structure. It was a truly grassroots movement, not centered around any single leader or leadership structure. This ended up being the biggest issue that caused the movement to end. With no central structure, there was no central message. The media had no one specific to talk to, so they were free to talk to whomever they wanted, regardless of how well that person was able to articulate the message. With no well articulated message, people who weren’t already playing close attention had no idea what the occupy movement was about, and they ignored it in droves.
Occupy didn’t really have defined goals. It had a loose coalition of people who were upset about similar things but didn’t really agree on what needed to be done to fix it.
Occupy wall street was an unfocused mess.
How is this humor?
Facebook post devoid of humor
Must we with the AI-generated images?
(I’m open to being corrected if it isn’t AI-generated, but it looks to me like some of those cows have too many legs.)
Better or worse than repurposed stock images or stolen copyrighted material?
Worse.
AI art is stolen copyrighted material.
