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You ask if they support the tea party and support is falling, but support for the things the tea party once stood for are still strong. It's like Obamacare. You ask if people like it and they say no, but you ask if they like the individual provisions of the law and they are all in.
Occupy Wall Street is still there, but they have been working behind the scenes for the last few years. The fast food worker protests and minimum wage debate is a direct result of OWS' continuing work and influence. Likewise the protests of the Keystone Pipeline and anti-fracking movements, and issues like money in politics. Their movement changed the national conversation about income inequality--who was talking about that before OWS? Now it's become a worldwide movement, and has also become a core part of the Democratic platform.
If you're really interested in what they've been doing lately there's a lot of information online. You can start here:
Only 17 percent of Americans now consider themselves Tea Party supporters, the lowest level since the movement emerged in 2010. The largest drop in support comes from voters who call themselves independents, though support has dropped significantly within every faction of the Republican party.
"Opponents of the Tea Party gained the upper hand and have led supporters in all 10 Gallup polls measuring views of the movement since the start of 2012. Since August 2012, support has failed to reach 25%, and it has fallen below 20% in each of the last two polls."
Yet it's this small minority fraction, who represents a mere 17 percent of the population (and who call themselves the Freedom Caucus these days) who continue to lead the House Republicans by the nose, to the great detriment of the country.
I have to tip my hat to the tea baggers and their overlords. They and the republicans in general have been focusing on state control while democrats have been focusing nationally. The state strategy is paying in spades since republicans Gerry mandered the hell of their respective states after the 2010 census and hold widespread state control.
The problem is how they keep reaching further to the right which is tanking their support. Donald trump and Ben Carson are gifts to the Democratic Party in a national election. I got my popcorn watching this.
Because of Tea Party support the Democrats lost just over 700 elected government positions in 2010. They lost another 700 in 2014.
Meanwhile the OWS Marxists have been making protest signs and banging pots and pans they stole from Mommy.
Eventually, people expect results from their elected leaders. It will be interesting to see what will happen with a party that tries everything in their power to prevent results from happening.
Support for the Tea Party is actually showing itself in this thus-far outsider's Presidential campaign. The Tea Party challenged the status quo. The Tea Party put the GOP in control of the House in 2010. The Tea Party ran RINO Boehner out of office. And now the status quo is being turned upside down in this Presidential campaign.
I'd say the Tea Party is absolutely, unequivocally winning....whether it's under the "Tea Party" umbrella or not.
Yea, and I stopped the last "close call" Asteroid from hitting Earth by making it miss.
All that would have happened without the Tea Party claiming it as a Victory. Sort of like you taking credit for it raining.
Tea Bags at the rallies starting in 2010 were always against Obamacare because it is a government program. Yet, they kept reinforcing not to touch their Medicare. A paradox of angry people.
Ask John Boehner (Speaker of the House), Kevin McCarthy (House Majority Leader) and Eric Cantor (Former House Majority Leader) how impotent and irrelevant the Tea Party has become.
Also, ask Nancy Pelosi (Former Speaker of the House) about how inconsequential the Tea Party was in 2010 when the Democrats were swept into the minority from a massive majority just two years earlier. And then ask Harry Reid (Former Senate Majority Leader) how powerless the Tea Party was in relationship to him and the Democrats losing control of the Senate in 2014.
Any Party can claim responsibility for anything, but it doesn't make it true. People have been doing that for years, especially charlatans, selling Snake Oil. which its the Teas quite well.
So, you are a liberal Democrat who does not like the Tea Party protest movement. Gotcha.
More like a common sense American not liking the Tea Party because of its Childish "Brat? behavior, like shutting down the Government costing Taxpayers Billions. They should have rounded all of them up and thrown them in Jail.
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