We're now privy to a news cycle around the notion that a consensus within educational bureaucracies that occurred over the pandemic is organic, but the post-pandemic backlash to it manifesting in packed school board meetings and routs in suburban muni elections is astroturf.
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As John said this morning, the denial is reminiscent of the early days of the tea party circa 2009. I'm skeptical we'll see that kind of electoral backlash since it's in no way a federal issue. But he's right about the way they're talking themselves into this idea.
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But .. didn’t that end in a .. very specific direction?
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The Tea Party movement was purportedly about limiting government power. Then the people who took hold of the movement got into power and ... that’s not what happened!
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I have plenty of problems with how that movement evolved, but it didn't look like that in 09-14, during its electoral ascendance. And it's also 20/20 hindsight. Likey saying in 1921 all this Bolshevist free love and unionization will get you Stalinism ten years hence.
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I was alive in 2010 and it had the “people are making money from this” feel for a long time.
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"Every great cause begins as a movement, becomes a business, and eventually degenerates into a racket." Not even remotely limited to the modern Right. GOP's mistake was trying to cram down Romney instead of having a Tea Party standard bearer in 2012.
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Who was that standard bearer? Santorum or Newt? I suppose Perry could have been that guy sans "oops" but it wasn't so simple in '12. I wanted Pawlenty, who would have been closer to Tea Party friendly but Bachmann crowded him out early. Draft attempts of Ryan and Christie failed
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