The liberal tea party movement has begun. What will become of it?

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By James Hohmann January 23 at 10:19 AM

THE BIG IDEA: The massive marches this weekend will be remembered as the starting point of a massive protest movement against President Trump, but what will become of the sleeping giant that has awakened?

If the extraordinary energy that was on display across the country is effectively channeled into electoral politics, some of the long-term demographic trends that Trump’s victory obscured will accelerate. He could be the last Republican elected president for a long time.

But a new protest movement could also upend the Democratic establishment, just like the tea party movement did eight years ago. With the president viewed as illegitimate by so many progressive activists, even small compromises will be viewed as apostasy. This could fuel nasty primary challenges, without a president in the White House to stop them, and prompt a lurch to the left that would make it harder to topple Trump in 2020.

FOR REPUBLICANS, THE CAUTIONARY TALE OF PROPOSITION 187:

The protests foreshadowed the long-term damage that Trump might be inflicting on the Republican brand. I found myself wondering what percentage of people in the streets hadn’t voted in 2016 and whether they will in 2020. Both statistics are important but unknowable.

Trump is a reactionary figure, but the long arc of American history bends toward reform. With his pledge to “make America great again,” the septuagenarian president tapped into nostalgia for a bygone era among fellow baby boomers. But the “good old days” were not so good for lots of folks, including but not limited to women, gays, Latinos and African Americans.

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[uponit7771]

1. Focus on voter suppression & gerrymandering, we're LOGICALLY wasting time on ANYTHING else first...

... due to the fact that it doesn't matter how many people in the US support something if they're votes don't wont matter.

[Initech]

2. Agree!

If we're going to topple Trump in 2020, we need to be united with a very clear and concise message. We can't have partisan bickering going into 2018 or we're going to lose even more seats and give them a supermajority, which I can guarantee nobody wants!