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Senior Writer @NRO. Reaganite, Catholic, Mets fan, ex-lawyer. Opinions 100% my own, but you can share them. Not the Cardinals broadcaster.

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    Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 18 Sep 2020

    Dan McLaughlin Retweeted Neil Stevens

    The Tea Party was supposed to use movement conservatives & the occasional libertarian to do this. It failed because there was no Tea Party presidential nominee in 2012, so by 2016, voters concluded that the Tea Party couldn't win a presidential election.https://twitter.com/presjpolk/status/1306712627813511168 …

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    Neil Stevens @presjpolk
    And as long as the mainstream of the GOP is unwilling to stand up to runaway careerists in DC, it will be the nationalist wing who continues to gain support for that. The more the mainstream GOP refuses to act, the more powerful the QAnons will get, too.
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      2. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 18 Sep 2020

        At the time, many of us who supported the Tea Party, hated the Romney nomination, but held our noses for him in November figured that after his failure, we'd get our turn in 2016. Instead, we got another protean Northeastern businessman *and* got blamed for Romney.

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      3. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 18 Sep 2020

        Of all the dumb ideas on Twitter, the single dumbest is the notion that the defeat of John McCain & Mitt Romney proves that movement conservatives can't win national elections.

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      2. Alfred J. Vim IV‏ @HillSpiaire 18 Sep 2020
        Replying to @baseballcrank

        The tea party picked some insane fights early on that doomed long term political goals.

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      3. Neil Stevens‏ @presjpolk 18 Sep 2020
        Replying to @HillSpiaire @baseballcrank

        What hurt us most, I think, is that we let the grifters in, much as BLM has, and we didn’t purge them effectively.

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      2. Adam Bonin‏ @adambonin 18 Sep 2020
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        Who even attempted to be in that lane in 2011-12? Bachmann? Perry?

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      3. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 18 Sep 2020
        Replying to @adambonin

        Perry was the one who was legit, had he been healthy that year.

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      2. S M Ginsberg‏ @s1gins 18 Sep 2020
        Replying to @lasagnalifeee @baseballcrank

        Also at its core it was a racist backlash to seeing a black man in the White House. Never forget the racism that was a huge driver of the tea party and trumpism

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      1. Kevin‏ @StableJeanius 18 Sep 2020
        Replying to @baseballcrank

        And the Tea Party guys running not appealing to voters. Rand Paul is more libertarian than Tea Party and Ted Cruz has about as many people that hate him than like him, and that just in his party.

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      1. All Your Vaccine Are Belong To Krampus‏ @BenignApathy 18 Sep 2020
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        "there was no Tea Party presidential nominee in 2012" @Chesschick01, I feel like you might have input on this.

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