Trump Tries to Gin Up a New Tea Party

[applegrove]

Trump Tries to Gin Up a New Tea Party

April 19, 2020 at 4:37 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard 0 Comments

https://politicalwire.com/2020/04/19/trump-tries-to-gin-up-a-new-tea-party/

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Will Bunch: “A decade ago I was so fascinated by a right-wing protest movement with similar, sometimes irrational demands and similar nebulous origins — the Tea Party —that I wrote an entire book about it, The Backlash. But what I learned back then is why I’m troubled by the way the Times, cable TV and other outlets are covering 2020?s ‘spontaneous’-not-really-right-wing rallies, because the real story is who stands behind them, and why…”

“But the endgame and the shared interests are very much the same. Distraction, and a diversion of anger in the Heartland — an anger with legitimate and understandable roots — away from them, and hopefully onto the political enemies who threaten their power. If it all sounds painfully familiar, it should. This is the Tea Party Redux, except this time with the added thrill of a seeming death wish among the participants. Maybe we should call this one the Ventilator Party, or maybe the Branch COVID-ians.”

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[onecaliberal]

1. Aka the pro virus party.

[Cha]

7. Yes.. the deadly contagious tea party.. enter at your

own peril.

[Blue Owl]

2. Double K&R

[applegrove]

3. Branch COVID-ians

because if you don't laugh you have to cry.

[empedocles]

4. 'Branch COVID-ians' is sharp, but too narrow for the broader public

[tanyev]

5. I fear the useful idiots are going to learn a very painful lesson in the days to come.

[Brother Mythos]

6. Some of us at DU are calling this evolution of the Tea Baggers the "Body Baggers."

But, as an old salt once commented to me about a different reorganization, "It's the same old whores in new kimonos."