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23. The teabagger rallies were never very big.

I went to a couple of Tea bag rallies as well as the occasional Paulista rally/parade. I'm in Austin, so the teabaggers are a bit outnumbered, but they had media on their side, lots of meet-up groups and websites. They always got a lot of press even when the local media wouldn't cover Liberal rallies with thousands. Short story is, they were a novelty and good for a laugh. By contrast, the Paulistas, were younger, better organized and more coherent (at least by their Libertarian standards).

Turning out a 100 people was a good day for the Teabaggers. Even their big event in San Antonio with Ted Nugent and Glen Beck could barely fill the plaza in front of the Alamo. Most of the crowd there that day were tourists standing just a bit back, wondering WTF was going on.

If there is a rise again in the teabagger world, just keep you ear on AM radio and Google a few local Tea-party sites. When they plan something, just go, grab a friend, watch, then go do something fun. There is nothing to be gained by counter-protesting a few handfuls of bitter, white, middle-aged and senior citizens.

The teabaggers simply do not have a mobilized activist base like progressives. They could never in a thousand Sundays turn out any sustained protests like the Occupy movement.